Russian Tragedy

11 hrs. 37 min.

Language Russian

Author Alexander Zinovyev

Narrator Ivan Litvinov

Description

The books of Alexander Alexandrovich Zinoviev, a prominent philosopher of our time, are in demand both in Russia and beyond its borders. Even his very first book—“Yawning Heights” (1976)—brought him worldwide fame and… forced emigration. Several years ago he returned to his homeland, where he continues to analyze the processes of social development.

In his new book, he examines one of the most tragic periods of the recent domestic history—when “the mass betrayal of the ruling party apparatus” led to the liquidation of a great country.

Contents:

The last sociological novel by Alexander Zinoviev
The Soviet “cesspool”
My social position
The collapse of the Soviet system of values
Our personal fate
Why?
My home
Our microdistrict
Past and present
The visible features of the future and remnants of the past
Visible features of post-communism
My interlocutors
Recognition Criticism
Visible features of Westernization
Privatization
The son
Visible features of Westernization
Suicide of the people
At home
Depression
Ideological emptiness
The problem of the future
The concept of the future
Aim toward time
Remnants of communism
To know and to understand
Who is to blame
Visible features of post-communism
Opinion Criticism
Russian communism
Communism ideological and real
The Russian Revolution
Evolution of communism
A new problem
A wife
The Great temptation
Obsession
Evolutionary turning point
Everyday life
Remnants of communism
Visible features of post-communism
Memory
Visible features of Westernization
Critic
Russian communism
Stalinist power
Repressions
Grandchildren
Defender
Despair
Visible features of Westernization
New Russians
One of the techniques of sociological swindling
Russian communism
Ideals and reality
Defender
Night
Visible features of Westernization
Seminar
A little sociology
After the seminar
Victims of the regime
Emigrant
Judges
The idea of resistance
Visible features of Westernization
Night thoughts
Russian communism
Visible features of post-communism
Defender
Illness of the wife
Master
Moscow
Ideological collapse
Ideological arbitrariness
Seminar
Russian communism
Insight
Russian communism
Nostalgia
Russian communism
My reflections
Russian communism
After the seminar
Doubt
At home
Settling accounts with the past
Post-communist communism
Dreams
Evolutionary turning point
Discovery of the self
Russian communism
They killed us
Russian communism
Death of the Wife
A planned catastrophe
Planned history
Making the future
The bankruptcy of the son
Everyday life
Russian communism