Oleksiy Mustafin is a well-known Ukrainian journalist and media manager, CEO of Mega TV channel. He graduated from the Drahomanov Pedagogical University (Faculty of History). He worked as a journalist in the publication "UNIAN-Weekly", magazines "Post-Postup", "Day", "Kyiv Telegraph", "Profile", "Mirror of the Week", on the TV channel "1 + 1". He headed the news services on the Inter and STB channels. Author of television films. The True History of the Late New Age is a book about how the modern world has changed with the beginning of the French Revolution, the emergence of the factory industry and the railways. Why did absolute monarchies give way to nation-states? Where were the ideas of liberalism, nationalism and socialism born? Who sewed the first jeans and who created the first car? When did you start dancing tango instead of waltz? What did the Impressionists and Avant-Garde try to impress their contemporaries with? Did poppy and quinine really help the colonial conquests? And why did the inventor of dynamite establish the Peace Prize? The answers to these and many other questions allow not only to learn about interesting facts, but also to understand the "logic of history".