V rabote izlozhena obnovlennaya sotsiologicheskaya teoriya, analiziruyushchaya razvitie chelovechestva kak edinstvo naroda, sotsiuma, tsivilizatsii. Predlozhena novaya sotsiologiya obshchestvennogo protsessa: pervobytnoobshchinnyy, sotsialisticheskiy, kapitalisticheskiy, demosotsial"nyy, informatsionnyy tipy obshchestva. Na ee osnove predstavlena novaya sotsiologiya Rossii, vklyuchayushchaya pervobytnoobshchinnoe, feodal"noe, agrarno-sotsialisticheskoe, industrial"no-kapitalisticheskoe, industrial"no-sotsialisticheskoe (sovetskoe), sotskapitalisticheskoe tipy obshchestva. Obosnovyvaetsya gipoteza, chto sotsialisticheskoe obshchestvo yavlyaetsya dokapitalisticheskim, a bor"ba sotsializma i kapitalizma istochnik razvitiya chelovechestva. Kniga prednaznachena vsem, kto interesuetsya istoriey i sotsiologiey Rossiey.