On November 17, 1st Deputy Minister of Education Natalia Tretyak announced: by March 1, 2015, new school history textbooks will be prepared, developed in accordance with a single historical and cultural standard About five years ago I asked my fourth-year students of the Literary Institute: “Are any of you familiar with such a phrase, with a defiantly proud intonation: “We did not graduate from universities!”? The forest of hands has risen, gentlemen, the forest of hands!

About five years ago I asked my fourth-year students of the Literary Institute: “Are any of you familiar with such a phrase, with a defiantly proud intonation: “We did not graduate from universities!”? The forest of hands has risen, gentlemen, the forest of hands! EVERYONE - you know, everyone! - this phrase was known and with this particular intonation ... A phrase that entered Russian life seventy years before their birth.

One of the three nominees for the award of Yegor Gaidar Prize (it will be awarded on November 19) - historian Alexander Yanov. The main idea of ​​his three -volume "Russia and Europe" is a danger to Russia the idea of ​​"Special Way" It was a long time The end of the 60s-the beginning of the 70s. Suddenly (exactly suddenly!) They spoke of Chaadaev and Slavophiles. Prior to this, Chaadaev went in the official Soviet context only as the addressee of the Youth Pushkin Epistle “To Chaadaev” - “...

Marietta Chudakova about the release of the story “One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich” 2K 5 minutes. ... For each Weekend issue, as part of the Private Memory project, we select one of the events from 1953-2013 that fell during that week. The scale of these events from the point of view of history is different, but imprinted forever in the memory of contemporaries, they acquired a common dimension - a human one.

National support - like a soap bubble Sevastopol. Spectators at a parade dedicated to Victory Day. May 9, 2014 For a lot of hours I am in a time in a day. - Why would it be? - Thinking people are cloudy. - And the rating? And the vast majority? I admit honestly - it does not suppress me. More precisely, it suppressed, fanned-and stopped suppressing. And this raises the mood - how many wonderful smart people in my country! How the wise men use their heads! They won’t let me blow out! ..

On August 6, the defendant of the “Swamp business” Alexei Gaskarov and his bride Anna Karpova played a wedding in the Moscow pre -trial detention center No. 2 “Butyrka” Anna Karpova, Happy wife Alexei Gaskarova. Moscow, August 6, 2014 In the last one and a half to two years, we are doomed to deja vu. The faint of heart barely manage to cry: "Ka-ak?!" Yes. A few years ago I told my friends: “We have already slipped Brezhnev. We rush directly to Comrade Stalin.

Marietta Chudakova. Photo from the personal archive Boris Nemtsov received - contrary to all expectations - official registration as a candidate for the post of mayor of Sochi.

Articles about the "Kremlin project" of the liberal party, streaming on the Internet, are more and more reminiscent of texts submitted to the Literary Institute for a competition before the entrance exams - there you need to show that a person ...

1K 9 min. ... The Culture channel is preparing a new series of programs by the famous publicist Marietta Chudakova Marietta CHUDAKOVA The series “Affairs of Literary Epochs of the USSR” almost coincided in time with one of the latest VTsIOM polls reflecting “affairs of social eras of Russia”: the population once again spoke in favor of introducing censorship. This series will help remind the population of the times of censorship.

The words of Joseph Brodsky are well known: “The main thing is the greatness of the plan.” Translated from the language of poets and philosophers into everyday speech: the right idea is already half the battle. Anatoly Chubais decided one fine minute that before RAO UES of Russia completed the grandiose project and ceased to exist, one more thing had to be done. Namely, to tell the most important and never-told part of the history of the Soviet electric power industry.

Print Marietta Chudakova Today, the overwhelming majority of our citizens (citizens only in the sense that they have Russian citizenship) would not be able to answer the question - is there now a Presidential Pardon Commission in Russia? The most important institution was destroyed seven years ago - but Russian society did not notice this. How many people over the years have asked me: “Are you still working in this ... Pardon Commission?

Natalya Gorbanevskaya. Noon: 
The case of the demonstration on August 25, 1968 
on Red Square Print Marietta Chudakova Plan for later ABOUT THE AUTHORS

What did Soviet historians talk about and what do Russian historians forget? “We are not chatterboxes,” my Moscow acquaintance V.V. told me. Altman, a very witty and knowledgeable person - but just talkative ... "R. Ganelin Soviet Atlantis with great speed - unnatural, it would seem, for her ... * “We are not talkers,” my Moscow acquaintance V.V. told me. Altman, a very witty and knowledgeable person - but just talkative ... " * R.

Marietta Chudakova. Photo from the personal archive Those who were 16-18 years old in the spring of 1956 remember how the stream of evidence of the atrocities of Soviet power fell upon our young heads.

Notes of a post-Soviet traveler “Understanding Russia with the Mind” is an author’s column by the literary critic and public figure Marietta CHUDAKOVA (for the beginning of the project, see Nos. 20, 27, 29 of Novaya Gazeta, 2007). The plot of her notes "Long Country" is a journey from Vladivostok to Moscow along... “Understanding Russia with the Mind” is an author’s column by the literary critic and public figure Marietta CHUDAKOVA (for the beginning of the project, see Nos.