“Yesterday’s World” is the last book of Stefan Zweig, the confession-will of the famous Austrian writer, created in the midst of the Second World War in exile. In addition to a wide panorama of the social and cultural life of Europe of the first half of the twentieth century, the reader will find in it the author’s reflections on the causes and motives of the grandiose human catastrophe, as well as, despite everything, sincere hope and faith in the ultimate victory of reason, goodness and humanism. “Yesterday’s World,” called Thomas Mann’s great book, took many years before it reached German readers. The path of this book to the Russian reader turned out to be much more difficult and took a total of five decades. In this edition, for the first time in Russian, the autobiography of the translator Gennady Efimovich Kagan “Yesterday’s World Today” is published. A fascinating story of life , Strangely similar to Stefan Zweig's book , on the translation of which Gennady Efimovich worked for more than one year and even more time he tried to publish it on the territory of the USSR