V knige analiziruyutsya unikal'nye ideologicheskie kontseptsii 20-30-kh gg. XX v. v Germanii i v srede russkoy emigratsii - fenomeny nemetskoy konservativnoy revolyutsii i russkoy porevolyutsionnoy mysli. K konservativnoy revolyutsii obychno otnosyat O.Shpenglera, A. Myellera van den Bruka, E.Yungera, Kh. Frayera, E.Nikisha, K. Shmitta, E.Yu.Yunga, Otmara Shpanna. K porevolyutsionnoy ideologii v issledovatel'skoy literature otnosyat evraziystvo (predstavlennoe takimi deyatelyami, kak knyaz' Trubetskoy, Savitskiy, Suvchinskiy i t.d.), natsional-bol'shevizm N.V. Ustryalova, solidarizm novopokolentsev iz Natsional'no-trudovogo soyuza (NTS), ideologiyu mladorossov Aleksandra Kazem-Beka, natsional-maksimalizm knyazya Shirinskogo-Shikhmatova. Kniga stavit svoey tsel'yu sopostavlenie etikh nemetskikh i russkikh konservativnykh techeniy, vstavshikh na put' modernizatsii konservatizma i pereosmysleniya opyta revolyutsii. V nachale XX veka v usloviyakh krakha imperiy i rosta populyarnosti revolyutsionnykh idey u chasti konservatorov poyavilas' mysl' otkazat'sya ot total'nogo soprotivleniya revolyutsii i vzglyanut' na neye s traditsionalistskoy tochki zreniya.