The problem of civilizations - their past and future, dynamics and interaction - occupies a key place in the social sciences and socio-political life of the 21st century. This problem is devoted to the monograph of Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences B.N. Kuzyk and Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Yu.V. Yakovtsa. In the monograph, the reader will find an original interpretation of the theory of civilizations, cyclic-genetic laws of their dynamics, dialogue and interaction, justification of the law of compression of historical time. In a civilizational perspective, demographic, natural-environmental, technological, economic, socio-political, spiritual factors of the development of society are studied. The history and future of civilizations are presented in three historical supercycles. For the first time, cliometric measurements of the dynamics of civilizations, a situational analysis and a forecast of Russia's place in the geocivilization space of the 21st century were carried out. The monograph will be of interest not only to scientists, graduate students, students. but also statesmen and public figures, all worried about the fate of the country and humanity.