In his new book, Vladimir Pastukhov summarizes, systematizes, and gives conceptual unity to his long-term research into the phenomenon of Russian power and the various manifestations of Russian civilization connected to it. The book draws a line under the author’s forty years of intense reflection on Russia’s fate. Since the first articles were written and up to the present day, Vladimir Pastukhov—without being a proponent of either straightforward “Westernism” or simplified “Eurasianism”—tries to clarify the meaning of the Russian world, defining it as “another Europe.” In his view, Russia is a separate civilization that, although belonging to the European family, is tied to a somewhat different type of culture, based on a peculiar combination of personal and collectivist principles. Here, the state dissolved society into itself and dissolved itself into society, not allowing society to fully go through the era of modernity—a process Russia is yet to complete. This is the aim of the re-foundation of Russia.