The article is devoted to the book of a famous philosopher, science organizer and globalistics theoretician Alexander N. Chumakov. In Chumakov’s eyes the globalization is the objective historical process, characterized by the universalization of the connections and relations, the constitution of the unifi ed structure of diff erent spheres of social life on the world scale. Being simultaneously a part of the formation of the world society, globalization is followed by the whole bunch of contradictions on the global, regional and local levels.