The October Revolution proclaimed an unprecedented anthropological experiment: the creation of a new person, a homunculus from a test tube of communist ideology. Over the decades of the existence of the USSR, a new human type has really developed - Homo Soveticus, but was it really new, different from the traditional Russian? And is it preserved in the post -Soviet period? Guests: Leonid Gozman, political scientist, president of the Perspective Foundation and Lev Gudkov, sociologist, director of Levada Center