Olexii Mustafin is a well-known Ukrainian journalist and media manager, general director of the Mega TV channel. Graduated from Drahomanov Pedagogical University (Faculty of History). He worked as a journalist in the publication "UNIAN-Weekly", magazines "Post-Postup", "Day", "Kyiv Telegraph", "Profile", "Mirror of the Week", on the TV channel "1+1". He headed the news services on the "Inter" and STB channels. The author of television films."The True History of Late Modern Times" is a book about how the modern world changed with the beginning of the Great French Revolution, the appearance of factory industry and railways. Why did absolute monarchies give way to nation states? Where were the ideas of liberalism, nationalism and socialism born? For whom were the first jeans sewn and who created the first car? When did they start dancing the tango instead of the waltz? What did impressionists and avant-garde artists try to impress their contemporaries? Did poppy and quinine really help colonial conquests? And why did the inventor of dynamite establish the peace prize? The answers to these and many other questions allow not only to learn about interesting facts, but also to understand the "logic of history".