The article is a reflection on the monograph by Zh.T. Toshchenko Trauma Society: Between Evolution and Revolution (Theoretical-Empirical Analysis) (Moscow: Ves Mir, 2020. 352 p.). The book analyzes the huge trauma of the Russian state and people after the collapse of the USSR. At the same time, the book identifies those traumas of the past and present that other countries experience under political, economic, social, and often military cataclysms.