Criticism of the social sciences is a response to the modern crisis of human knowledge. Social sciences were born as an ideology of democracy, therefore their crisis is closely interconnected with the crisis of modern democratic society. What exactly is the crisis in the social sciences? Will social sciences be able to find within themselves the resources for renewal or will they be replaced by new cultural practices? The book by the famous historian N. E. Koposov contains articles and reviews devoted to the history and current state of the social sciences, and above all, historiography. The author focuses on the formation and collapse of the modern system of basic historical concepts.