In Russian – http://crossroadorg.info/en/farah_1

Author – Dr. Sohail Farah, Member of the Russian Academy of Education, an editor of Arabic version of the web site of The Group of strategic vision “Russia – Islamic world”. Second Edition (504 pages) – was published in 2019 by Egyptian-Russian Foundation for Culture & Sciences. First Edition was published in 2017.  Professor Farah is originally from Lebanon, in March 2018 there was a book presentation in the Center for Strategic Studies of the Lebanese Army in Beirut.

The Contents

Introduction: Posing the problem…………………..…………………. 7

Chapter I: Russian and the power of the place……………….…..… 15
Geographic Range……………………………………..………………… 17
Characteristics of Nature………………………………………………… 26
Unity of Nature…………………………………………………………. 34
Power of Place and Resoluteness ………………………………………. 38
Russian Spiritual Geography …………..………………………………. 51

Chapter II: History questions………………………………..…………59
Russia within the Context of Civilizational Theories…………….…….…. 61
The Problem of History in Russian civilization.………………………… 76
Philosophy of Russian history.………………………………………….. 86

Chapter III: The Ethnic and Religious Dimension of Russian Personality……109
Russia: Word and Meaning……………………………………………… 111
Ethnic Combination………………………………………………………… 115
Religion in Russian Society: Power and Church as a Model.……..……. 121
Orthodox Church and the struggle over Russian Identity……………….. 147
The Role of Islam in the Russian Structure……………………………… 160

Chapter IV: Russian Mentality: Its Theoretical and Life Features …..171
Russian Mentality in What Sense?…………………………………………………… 173
Behavioral Psychology of Russians…………………………..………… 182
Russian Values: A Look Inside…………………………….…………… 193
Methods of running range and economy…………………….…………. 204

Chapter V: Russian Creative Energy…..……………………………. 223
Pushkin: The Closest Poet to the Russian Conscience……………..……. 225
Dostoevsky and the Idea of Russia…………………………….……….. 241
Ilyin and the Creative spirit of Russia………………………..………….. 263
Vernadski: The Wisdom of Russian Science……………………………274
Russian Sorokin whose Knowledge revealed in the West and East……..289

Chapter VI: Geopolitics and Russian Energy……………………….. 317
Russian Geopolitics between East and West…………………..………… 319
Russian Intelligentsia: Its Definition and Function………….………….. 350
Construction and Destruction Energy in the Russian triangle……………368
The Spirit of the Russian Heroism in Front of Challenges of Adversity and Nature……. 388

Chapter VII: Russia between the stumbling of modernization and the challenge of globalization…… 433
Why has Modernization Stumbled in Russia?…………………………………….435
Russian Civilization in the Era of Cultural Globalization……..………… 448
Rather than the Conclusion: Through Russian History and Destiny 463
The Question of History and Future in the Russian Idea………………… 465
Rotational Movement on the History of Russian Civilization…..……… 472
Future Indicators of the Development of Russian Civilization………….. 478

References……………………………………………………………….493