The book “Social Tradition” by the famous Russian political philosopher Alexander Shchipkov is a vivid, holistic, deep and understandable analysis of the life of modern society for the average reader. The author writes about the “turn to tradition” that has begun in the world, about the revaluation of the role of tradition in the life of modern man. The author’s view is based on systemic traditionalism, within which tradition appears not as a set of certain social institutions or ideals of the past, but as a mechanism of sociocultural transmission and continuity. The author argues that the future of Russia and that part of the world that chooses social rather than the usual ethnocultural traditionalism will inevitably be associated with the construction of a new model of society, based both on the idea of social justice and on adherence to traditional values. In the author's ideological compendium one can find a number of references to the evangelical tradition of social Christianity, to the legacy of John Chrysostom and his school, to the manifestos and activities of the Russian underground social-Christian movement, as well as to a wide range of ideas of modern philosophical and political thought - from the movement of "radical orthodoxy" "to the school of world-system analysis. Shchipkov Alexander Vladimirovich - political philosopher, sociologist of religion, writer, Doctor of Political Sciences, Candidate of Philosophy, one of the leading Russian experts on the religious and political situation in the country and the world.