The past - poem - the release of "Fix" went out under the motto "Kushner everywhere." This time the line of critics and non-fiction, and in the position of "everywhere" we have Mikhail Epstein. In the January issue of NM, Mikhail Epstein represents the experiments of catastrophic history (" Oedipus Complex of Soviet Civilization "): exercises in the school Freudism on the basis of a school history textbook. Here is a wonderful epigraph from Gorky: " I agreed to the incest?

The debunking of myths If we wonder about the causes of hazing in the Russian army, then the search for truth is best to start by debunking the myths related to this topic. The first myth - grandfature originated in the Russian army with the collapse of the USSR and is a consequence of the socio -economic crisis that struck the country . In fact, hazing exists in the domestic army for at least several decades and in its current form was formed in the 70s.

The fact that this book was published right now is a very symptomatic sign of the times. The existence of a study codenamed “Yeltsin’s Ideology” was impossible by definition - not only did the previous president of Russia not have any ideology, but he couldn’t have had one. In the 90s there was no time for ideologies.