"The modes are not at rallies"
A book of memoirs of a historian, publicist Leonid Batkin, one of the iconic figures of perestroika, is being prepared for the publication. The New Times talked with him about Marxism, Lenin’s significance, mistakes of the 90s and faith in progress Leonid Batkin (born in 1932) - historian, culturologist, public figure. He studied and subsequently taught at the Kharkov Institute of Arts.