Empire. Present and Future. Book Three

What is translatio?Imperii? What tradition did the Russian Empire inherit from Assyria, Persia, and Rome? What is Russia's mission in world history? K.V. Malofeev's book is dedicated to the Empire, its past, present, and future. The author explores the interaction in world history of the imperial principle, based on religiously justified power, and the principle of trade and finance. A grand historical panorama unfolds before the reader — Assyria and Babylon, Greece and Persia, Rome and Carthage, and up to our time — the collapse of the Russian Empire, the rise and fall of the Soviet project, the establishment of the modern world order, and attempts to counteract it. Great conquerors, prophets and saints, trading corporations and banking houses act on these pages. The third volume examines the events of the 20th and early 21st centuries, when the shattered Empire, after being crushed by Canaan, first revived in the form of a Soviet state, and in our days is being reborn again — as a true Orthodox Empire, through the efforts of Vladimir Putin. The study, on the one hand, is based on the best achievements of domestic and world historiography, and on the other — offers original historiographical ideas, developed by the author over decades. The book will be of interest to historians, philosophers, political scientists, economists, as well as students and a wide range of history enthusiasts.