About one revision of the history of the USSR The Soviet Union thought more about world grain prices than about building communism, and developing countries joined the social bloc only because of favorable terms of trade. These are the bold conclusions that historian Oscar Sanchez-Sibony comes to in his book Red Globalization. Alyosha Rogozhin talks about how convincing his arguments are. Oscar Sanchez-Sibony. Red globalization. The Political Economy of the Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev.

Survival instructions from Virginia Wolf 140 years ago, Virginia Wolf was born - an English writer who turned up the ideas of contemporaries about what the literature could be. On this occasion, Gorky chose from her letters, diaries and essays in the translation of Alexander Livergant the most interesting places. About London I can wander around the gloomy streets of Holborne and Bloomsbury for hours. Everywhere confusion, ruin, running around ...

About Kim Jandry Kimsuk and her novel "Grass" During the Second World War in the territories occupied by Japan, tens of thousands of girls and women were in sexual slavery. After the war, this topic was silent for a long time, and the Japanese government has not yet brought apologies to the victims, limiting itself to only monetary compensations. The fate of one of the women in a military brothel at the age of fifteen is dedicated to the documentary graphic novel by Kim-Jandry Kimsuk “Grass”.

Excerpt from Viktor Vakhstein's book "Imaginal City" Sociologist Viktor Vakhstein (recognized as a foreign agent) wrote a book on how to think in different ways the city, about how ideas become management tools, and how the imagination of researchers calls utopian settlements-from Bourdiepolis to Leibestadt. We publish an excerpt dedicated to a paradoxical relationship between the concepts of “city”, “society” and “community”. Victor Vakhstein.