The essay is dedicated to the book by Nikolai Ivanovich Kareev, an outstanding representative of the "Russian school" of historiography, written in the last years of the First World War, but published only now. In this work, Kareev outlined his views on world history, his understanding of the progress of human society and the development of civilizations. The author comes to the conclusion that only European civilization is moving along the "wide road of history", since it alone was able to spread its influence over the whole world, and other civilizations over the past centuries borrowed its achievements. In his opinion, at one stage or another, they remained on the periphery of history due to despotism and dogmatism: in principle, he considers the Turks and Mongols to be enemies of civilization, and the rule of Arab civilization, according to his concept, was guaranteed only by physical force.
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