Who made the October revolution? An undoubted fact is the absolute predominance of the peasant population in pre-revolutionary Russia. The same fact is that serfdom was legally abolished in 1861, but its remnants remained in large quantities until the October Revolution. For comparison: in England, serfdom virtually disappeared already in the 13th century.

For Sasha Today Sasha Sokolov turns 60 Andrey Stepanov Publication date: November 6, 2003 Dear author so-and-so, I remember very well this fence, high and long, I leaned against it, getting out of the trolleybus in which I was going to school, which was called the highest, because we were taught there to read and even write a little, and this there was an empty trolleybus, that is, there was no one in it except me, the driver and the gray houses outside the windows - and in order to fill it, it

Next week, the board of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation will meet at Mosfilm to discuss how best to organize the largest state film concern in the current conditions. It seems that all the talk about the imminent privatization of Mosfilm has disappeared, and if so, it makes sense for the authorities to come to grips with the stronghold of its presence in the film industry. Apparently, the state has taken seriously not only Mosfilm, but all of our cinema.

" To the Azarosis" - a mysterious novel; This is his main feature. Only his mystery is not in the detective plot, as one might think, but in some inexplicable oddity of the reader's perception that he causes. It should be said right away that the detective intrigue built by Yuzefovich in itself is beyond praise.

In the third class there were unemployed people eating cheap wet sausage. Passing people lived as if they were traveling on a foreign planet, and not on their own country; everyone ate furtively and did not give food to their neighbor, but still people huddled together, seeking protection on the terrible routes of communication. Andrey Platonov. "City of Gradov" Previous parts are here and here .

“Civil society” has not yet come together Maria Slobodskaya Publication date: November 6, 2003 Russian Journal: On the approach to the Forum, two types of tasks were formulated: relatively speaking, political - putting forward an “agenda” for the authorities - and, relatively speaking, social - agreements on interaction on specific social programs. How can you assess the results of the Forum's work in these areas? Maria Slobodskaya: I think that the Forum has accomplished most of its tasks.

Left-Liberal Pact Sergey V. Biryukov Publication date: November 6, 2003 The sensational arrest of M. Khodorkovsky has deep political implications and significantly changes the political situation in Russia. It does not simply “unfreeze” (as G. Pavlovsky put it) politics, but transfers the entire political system to a new qualitative state.

Bykov-quickly: look-59 Dmitry Bykov Publication date: November 6, 2003 This quickle will be short, because I don’t see, in general, a special subject for conversation. I could well have expected just such a turn of thought, which was demonstrated by Alexander Ageev in the next “ Hunger ”. I liked the slogan, jokingly expressed by a critic friend in a private conversation, “Feed Ageev!”, but this hunger is insatiable, such an itch will not go away during one’s lifetime.

October Revolution: event, era, phenomenon of consciousness Mikhail Gefter (1918-1995) Publication date: November 6, 2003 Each of these hypostases (or projections) has its own calendar and its own space, although in historical reality the boundaries between them are relative and fluid.

Boom Droturgy in Russia is experiencing a boom, and one of the evidence of this is the abundance of dramatic competitions in the country. In the deaf 90s, only the Anti-Bucker Awards of the Independent Newspaper supported the smoldering light of public interest in the modern play. Each presentation of the award became an event, and the last three awarded (Maxim Kurochkin, Evgeny Grishkovets, Vasily Sigarev) today confidently called the leaders of the theater process.

"Lenin in Poland" and "The Matrix: Revolution" Portraits against the backdrop of reality Publication date: November 6, 2003 The contemporary philosopher Slavoj Žižek, in his book “The Sublime Object of Ideology,” gives the following anecdote: “A group of visitors at an art exhibition huddled around a painting called “Lenin in Poland,” which depicts Nadezhda Krupskaya on a bed in a frivolous pose in the company of a young Komsomol member.