History lessons and the contemporary world
The author states that the beginning of each new century, starting from the XVII, has been dramatic for Russia. Basing on the analysis of the events sequence, which led to the First World War, the author draws certain analogy with the specificity of the international situation development at the beginning of the XXI century. According to his assessment, nowadays there is a set of factors which may serve as a detonator of the new world large-scale conflict, in case of negative dynamics of events.