The author of the brochure, Sergei Georgievich Kara-Murza, is widely known to Soviet and Russian readers for his journalism in many patriotic newspapers and magazines. A number of these articles are collected in this collection - all of them are imbued with the main idea: a strict scientific substantiation of the impossibility of carrying out a liberal reform in Russia according to the Anglo-Saxon model, the originality of the historical path of Russia, the uniqueness and intrinsic value of Russian culture and the cultures of the peoples inhabiting it. The author's ideas will undoubtedly become an important component of Russian state building in the new historical segment of Russia's long path.