Five books about work from a Christian perspective Today, all progressive humanity celebrates International Workers' Day, which reactionaries and revisionists, who fear solidarity like hell, prefer to call the ephemeral Day of Spring and Labor. Solidarity is very good, but you should never forget about the eternal. Therefore, Philip Nikitin chose the five most useful, in his opinion, books that allow you to look at work and work from a Christian perspective.

What to ask at bookstores Memoirs of the incomparable Isaac Asimov, an account of the conquest of the stacks, Guillaume Groen van Prinsterer translated by Alexey Lyubzhin, revelations of a bad samurai and a biased but still instructive monograph on Chinese censorship in the post-Tiananmen era. As always on Fridays, the editors of Gorky cannot be stopped in their desire to talk about the most interesting news of the week.

Fragment of the book “Pugachevshchina” by Kirill Ospovat The Pugachev rebellion, even in Soviet times, was rarely viewed not simply as an uprising of the oppressed against their oppressors, but as a natural manifestation of republican and even democratic tendencies that swept throughout enlightened Europe in the 18th century and culminated in the Great French Revolution.