The textbook covers not only politics and diplomacy, economics and culture of the second period of the New Age (late 18th – early 20th centuries). History appears as a single process in which, along with great discoveries and terrible wars, social transformations and revolutions, there was also everyday life with its anxieties and worries, hopes and joys. Questions, tasks, maps, statements of contemporaries, other teaching materials that The textbook is rich, turning familiarity with the course of modern history into an exciting creative process. The textbook is written in accordance with the Federal State Educational Standard of Basic General Education, approved by the Russian Academy of Education and the Russian Academy of Sciences, and included in the Federal List.