This novel is a kind of continuation of the famous “Drawing Textbook”: an analysis of the crisis of society, which was predicted in the “Textbook” and has come true today. The book features Oxford professors, Afghan soldiers, Kremlin politicians and Moscow hospital patients. We see the collapse of the grand illusion from different points of view. The global empire has cracked, the liberal doctrine has become disgraced, and man is mortal, and we must hurry. These simple facts force us to redefine values... Maxim Kantor’s new book could be called “A Textbook of Resistance.”