The sensational work "Civilization before the Court of History" was published from the pen of Arnold James Toynbee, the author of 67 books translated into 30 languages ​ ​ of the world, and perhaps the most widely read and discussed scientist for most of the 20th century. The book offered to readers included theoretical articles, mainly related to 1947 - it was in this year that Arnold Toynbee appeared on the cover of Time magazine, whose headline read: "The most provocative historical theory written in England since Karl Marx's Capital."