This book introduces the Russian reader to the brilliant scientist of the American national racial school, Lothrop Stoddard (1883–1950). He clearly described the characteristic mental symptoms of a brewing rebellion against civilization and showed that the idea of automatic progress is inherently false, since the factors of general degradation are also an integral part of the historical process. L. Stoddard is the author of numerous scientific monographs on the philosophy of history on a racial basis, which analyze the causes of the rise and fall of civilizations and their competitive struggle for world domination. Throughout the rest of the world, he is rightly considered a defender of civilization. He was and remains an excellent racial diagnostician of socio-political situations. The correctness of Stoddard’s predictions today can easily be found in any news release showing how crowds of modern barbarians, united by a commonality of base instincts, rush to destroy the foundations of civilization. L. Stoddard’s methods are in demand today and modified within the framework of such modern science as biopolitics.