Opposition and fight of worlds. To the 100<sup>th</sup> anniversary of the end of Civil War in Russia
The Civil war is seen as a confrontation and struggle between the old and the new worlds. The main features of the world-system as a special socio-historical phenomenon are considered and analyzed. The officer corps of Tsarist Russia was a closed corporate world-system. A specialized type of mentality was being formed, which began to falter after the February Revolution and, especially, during the Civil War. The leadership of the White movement in the fight against the Bolsheviks relied on the “fragments” of the old world.