How the generation of communism builders buried the USSR

About the new biography of Bismarck In the ZhZL series, a book about Otto von Bismarke - politics, which is not deprived of biographies, was published. Why the work of Germanist Nikolai Vlasov is not only the best biography of the Iron Chancellor in Russian, but also a labor that can interest even a German reader, says economist and political scientist Dmitry Travin. Starting from February 24, 2022, we were all in the face of the advancing barbarism, violence and lies.

Dmitry Travin - about the two -volume of Nikolai Mitrokhin (recognized by the Russian authorities by a foreign agent) A prominent specialist in the history of the Late Soviet Society Nikolai Mitrokhin wrote a book about the post -Khrushchev economic policy of the USSR in order to reveal the essence of the “Kosyginsky” and “Andropov” reforms.

Dmitry Travin This year, the new book prize "Politzerosvet" will be awarded for the first time. “After February 24, the conversation about enlightenment is impossible outside the ethical and political context. Therefore, this year a special Polit-Svetvet award was established-for a book dedicated to the current socio-political process and helps to understand its nature, ”says Boris Zimin, the head of Zimin Foundation, with the support of which is presented with Politicosvet.

Gennady Burbulis has always been a mystery to me. Even having met him personally, I could not understand how this soft, quiet and immersed man for a couple of years ascended to the incredible height of Russian politics. Yes, yes, there is no exaggeration. There was a moment when he was the second person in the state hierarchy. And it was he who connected Yeltsin’s political power to the reform potential of Gaidar.

Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New Gazeta" You pretend to be elections - we pretend that we choose In the Soviet Union, which some recall with nostalgia, there was a saying: "You pretend that you pay us, we pretend that we are working." In modern conditions, work and salary thanks to a market economy more or less correspond to everyday realities, but in politics, imitation covers literally everything. “You pretend that these are elections, we pretend that we are choosing,” says the people Smolny.

You pretend to be elections - we pretend that we choose Photo: Elena Lukyanova / "New Gazeta" In the Soviet Union, which some recall with nostalgia, there was a saying: "You pretend that you pay us, we pretend that we are working." In modern conditions, work and salary thanks to a market economy more or less correspond to everyday realities, but in politics, imitation covers literally everything. “You pretend that these are elections, we pretend that we are choosing,” says the people Smolny.