About the book: year / "Russia experienced a revolution. This revolution did not deliver what was expected of it. The positive gains of the liberation movement still remain, in the opinion of many, to this day at least problematic. Russian society, exhausted by previous stress and failures, is in a kind of numbness, apathy, spiritual confusion, and despondency. Russian statehood has not yet shown signs of renewal and strengthening, which are so necessary for it, and, as if in a sleepy kingdom, everything in it has again frozen, shackled by an irresistible slumber. Russian citizenship, overshadowed by numerous death penalties, an extraordinary increase in crime and a general coarsening of morals, has gone positively backward. Russian literature is flooded with a turbid wave of pornography and sensational products. There is something to become despondent about and fall into deep doubt about the future of Russia…»