Conversations at the turn of the millennium, Sergei Ivanovich Shapoval

The collection features voices from the recent past. These are the voices of famous people - writers, sociologists, historians, economists, public figures who analyze history and modernity, answer the most pressing and pressing questions, discuss the situation in society and the country's prospects. The 1990s and 2000s are two most important decades for modern Russia. 81 conversations, 56 interlocutors. The first series of conversations is devoted to such an important phenomenon of Russian culture of the 1970th century as the literary underground of the 1980s–1990s. Writers of different ideological and aesthetic convictions share their thoughts here: D.A. Prigov, V. Sorokin, S. Gandlevsky, L. Rubinshtein, Yu. Kublanovsky, Yu. Karabchievsky, T. Kibirov, Yu. Mamleev, etc. The next two sections contain conversations from the 2000s and XNUMXs, some of them — summing up the results of the past decades. Among the interlocutors are B. Dubin, V. Erofeev, M. Gorbachev, E. Gaidar, I. Shafarevich, M. Kantor, V. Medinsky, V. Zhivov, Vyach. Sun. Ivanov, S. Zizek, A. Zorin and others. The intellectual charge accumulated in the book is not just a fact of living history, it explains a lot in modern Russian life.