The Invention of Russia
17 hrs. 25 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Arkady Ostrovsky
Author
Arkady Ostrovsky
Narrator
Igor Gmyza
Narrator
Igor Gmyza
Description
“Russia Speaks and Shows” is an audiobook about what path our country has taken over the last decades and where this path is leading us now.
In the late 1980s and right at the beginning of the 1990s, novels by writers whose very mention once could cost freedom—and even life—appeared on bookshop shelves. In the news, there was less and less talk about the brilliant conquests of socialism and more and more about the truth. And in newspapers—a previously unimaginable phenomenon—critics started attacking the authorities, and even the figure of the General Secretary could be criticized. Then the Soviet Union collapsed. And it seemed that the people, who not so long ago were toppling the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky looming across from them on the Lubyanka pedestal, had no way back to the past. But from TV screens, from radio receivers, and from the pages of newspapers—once again, painfully familiar calls began to sound: to use the same methods, and to return the symbols of time that seemed to be gone forever.
In the late 1980s and right at the beginning of the 1990s, novels by writers whose very mention once could cost freedom—and even life—appeared on bookshop shelves. In the news, there was less and less talk about the brilliant conquests of socialism and more and more about the truth. And in newspapers—a previously unimaginable phenomenon—critics started attacking the authorities, and even the figure of the General Secretary could be criticized. Then the Soviet Union collapsed. And it seemed that the people, who not so long ago were toppling the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky looming across from them on the Lubyanka pedestal, had no way back to the past. But from TV screens, from radio receivers, and from the pages of newspapers—once again, painfully familiar calls began to sound: to use the same methods, and to return the symbols of time that seemed to be gone forever.
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