Russia and the world. Historical self -understanding. Pantin I.K.

The proposed collection of articles is somewhat different from publications of this type. In it, the author, a philosopher and a historian, seeks to overcome a widespread reaction to the Marxist dogma of the history of Russia, a natural and healthy reaction basically, but today has become a kind of chronic state of our science. Through all the articles of the collection, the theme of the genetic connection of the past and the present, which is revealed by understanding the theory of historical process and historical knowledge, detect the ratio of international and regional in the conditions of different eras.

The problematic nature of the collection involves the search, a clash of different points of view, the interrogative signs, which naturally at the time when the past is re -introduced into modernity, turning it at the time of development.