This book is devoted to the 1960s, which, according to the authors Peter Vail and Alexander Genis, began in 1961 with the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party, which adopted the program for building communism, and ended in 1968 with the occupation of Czechoslovakia, which in the USSR was perceived as the final collapse of all hopes. These chronological boundaries make it possible to single out a special period in Soviet history—a period that was eclectic, contradictory, and paradoxical, yet united by many common trends. In those years, Soviet civilization developed into the most characteristic model for itself, and the specificity of the Soviet person was expressed in the fullest, brightest way. Those same turning years also brought fundamental changes in the ideology of Soviet society. The book “The 1960s. The World of the Soviet Person” was included in the list of “the best nonfiction books of all time,” compiled by experts of the magazine “Afisha.”