Confession of renegade: Alexander Zinoviev

In the “Confession of the Rebel”, first published in the West in 1990, an outstanding Russian scientist and writer A.A. Zinoviev (1922-2006) talks about his life and fate against the background of those historical events and trials that fell to Russia and the people of his generation. This is collectivization, years of study in Moscow, acquaintance with Lubyanka and a daring escape from it, war, student and scientific life in the post -war and subsequent years, including forced emigration from the USSR and returning to their homeland. At the same time, the book has a deep scientific sociological analysis of the Soviet and post -Soviet reality, as well as the phenomenon to which the author gave the name “Westernism”. The book is read with unhappy interest from the first to the last page, successfully combining
The properties of an adventure novel and a deep scientific treatise.
As illustrative material, materials from the author’s personal archive were used.

Author
Zinoviev Alexander Alexandrovich
Editor
Solodukhin Yuri Nikolaevich
Publisher
Astrel, 2008
Series
Social thought of Russia