Interview with economist Dmitry Travin. Part 2 In the second part of a long interview (first here ) with economist Dmitry Travin, author of the book “Why has Russia fallen behind?”, Nikolai Protsenko discusses with him the boundaries of geographic determinism, features of Russian peripherality, the work of Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev and other interesting subjects. The Limits of Geographical Determinism — Let's return to the contents of your book.

About the re-release of Limonov's debut novel One of the notable events of the outgoing 2021 was the re-release by Alpina Non-Fiction of Eduard Limonov’s first novel “It’s Me, Eddie.” Much has been said about this work, which has long been considered a classic of modern Russian literature; but it seems that the main “literary fact” associated with “It’s Me, Eddie” is that the novel was not published in Russia for more than twenty years (republication became possible only after Limonov’s death).

Gleb Pavlovsky - About the book of Simon Cordon "How Russia works" Simon Cordonsky. How Russia is arranged. Articles and interviews of different years. M.: Common Place; The Hamovniki Social Research Fund, 2021 . Content On the cover of this amazing book - someone like a big brother against the background of Russia. This is a book of attacks against all in the world, from power to the intelligentsia (among its anti -heroes there are me).

Interview with economist Dmitry Travin. Part 1 In the recently published book "Why is Russia behind?" EUSPB professor Dmitry Travin is not only trying to answer a question that has long been bothering many of us, but also offers a new approach to Russian history, in which the theory of modernization, the world-system analysis and institutional economy were connected.

Excerpt from the book "Days of Liberation" Many convinced opponents of contemporary art believe that one of his work still deserves attention and respect - we are talking about the Laibach group organized by the Norwegian artist in North Korea, the most closed country in the world. But how did anyone even manage to crank up such an epoch-making adventure?