This book is addressed to the general public. Its author V. Mayevsky, a political observer for the Pravda newspaper, talks about the ideological battles of our days. Many pages of the book are devoted to polemics with bourgeois figures in the USA, England, Japan, but on issues of war and peace, the national liberation struggle, democracy, and the coexistence of states with different social systems. The author reveals the counter-revolutionary nature of those forces that the peoples of Hungary and Czechoslovakia tried to push off the socialist path, talks about the events of the so-called "cultural revolution" in China.