At the turn of the eras. Reflections

In the book of a prominent politician and economic leader, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1985-1990. N.I. Ryzhkova collected (and accompanied by new comments) materials of different years (1995-2012) In their aggregate, they reveal the author’s ideas about the organic conjugation of modern Russian problems with our recent past, and most importantly, about the need to take this unity in determining the ways of further development of the country.
In the first part of the book, the author shares with readers the results of his thoughts about the fate of Russia and the connection of the times, about the Russian national idea, interpreted as ensuring social justice. In the second part, from the standpoint of not only an eyewitness, but also a direct participant describes and analyzes a number of specific historical significance of events in the country and the world that took place at the turn of the socialist and post -socialist eras.
We are talking about the plots indicated by the words "Chernobyl" and "Spitak", about the "surrender" of the GDR, about the Yugoslav tragedy and others, including ideological, aspects and consequences of the grandiose geopolitical disaster, which was the collapse of the USSR