Soviet era. Confession of a renegade

Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev - writer, sociologist, publicist, one of the most significant Russian thinkers of the late XX -early XXI century. A native of a poor peasant family, a participant in the war, Alexander Zinoviev was critical of a socio-political system in the USSR, and in 1978 was expelled from the country. He returned to Russia only in 1999, in recent years, having changed his point of view on the Soviet era. He still saw its shortcomings, but also noted many features that brought Soviet civilization to the number of advanced ones.
In the book of Alexander Zinoviev, the Soviet era is shown against the background of the life of the author and his family: revolution, collectivization, Stalinism, repression, war, post -war situation in the country, subsequent years, and at the same time a deep analysis of Soviet reality. The book is read with unhappy interest from the first to the last page, successfully combining the features of an adventure novel and a scientific treatise