The history of Russia of the twentieth century. The degradation of the totalitarian state and the movement to the new Russia (1953 - 2008)

This book - the first of many modern publications - returns Russian history. From an impersonal description of "objective processes" and "driving forces", it makes the story of lively, personal and actual. Historical material in the book complements many memoirs of eyewitnesses, biographical references, fragments of the most important documents, photographs and other living evidence of our past. The history of Russia is the history of people, not processes and strength. The creation of this book was attended by leading scientists of Russia and other countries of the world, who set themselves a very definite task - to present the reader a new, not biased view of the life and paths of Russia in the most dramatic era of its existence