Russian Russian intellectual dialogue In his new book, Vladimir Kantor, writer, Doctor of Philosophy, professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, head of the International Laboratory of Russian-European Intellectual Dialogue, considers the problem of power and anarchy as one of the most important historiosophical problems, one of the key to Russian history. The government almost always determined the mode of Russian life – positive under Peter the Great, Catherine II, Alexander II and Alexander III, and destructive for the Russian state: under Nicholas II, Lenin, Khrushchev, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, who lost both territories and international influence. It is amazing that society has almost always followed in the footsteps of the authorities. If they opposed it, then chaos ensued in the country. And this is one of the mysteries of Russian history. The purpose of the book is to get at least a little closer to solving it. The author approaches this problem both as a cultural philosopher and as a writer.