The collective monograph summarizes the materials of the XVI International Panarin Readings on the topic "The World of Civilizations and "Modern Barbarism": Russia's Role in Overcoming Global Nihilism." In total, about 100 reports were heard at the readings on a wide range of problems related to the most important trend in the development of modern cultural and political life - the growing role of world civilizations and, accordingly, original civilization countries as leading actors in the historical process, among which a special mission belongs to Russia.