The collection of articles published by the Department of History and the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences is the first issue of a series of publications on the theory and history of civilizations. With this issue of the inter-institutional academic collection “Civilization”, the Department of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Universal History as the basic center for the implementation of a scientific project under this name begin publication of the publication. A Comparative Study of the History of Civilizations Mainly in the Middle Ages , New and recent[edit] His focus will be on the theory, methodology and history of both the vanished civilizations and the existing ones. As part of a holistic approach to covering the history of individual civilizations, the collection will publish articles devoted to certain aspects of their history. At the same time, a combination of theoretical and staged articles and articles specifically historical on the same problems will contribute to achieving a more voluminous, more reflective level of their coverage. In addition to Soviet authors, the collection will publish translations of articles by major contemporary foreign philosophers, sociologists, historians and linguists, touching on issues that coincide with the problems of this publication. Finally, the collection will include special sections “Historiography, discussions, bibliography” and “Primary sources” ..