V rabote issleduetsya problema opredeleniya dukhovnykh osnov kul'tury, v techenie dlitel'nogo vremeni skladyvavshikhsya v Rossii. Chto predstavlyaet soboy russkaya ideya, chto est' russkiy mir, russkiy dukh, v chem sostoit ikh istoricheskaya preemstvennost'? - vot voprosy, kotorye obsuzhdayutsya v knige. V rabote predprinimaetsya popytka metafizicheskogo tolkovaniya smysla vsemirno-istoricheskogo protsessa s tochki zreniya profeticheskogo ponimaniya samoy istorii. Avtor takzhe vyskazyvaet mnenie po ryadu diskussionnykh voprosov o geopoliticheskom i mirovozzrencheskom vybore v sud'be Rossii v XX-XXI vekakh.