About the book: 1996 / Mikhail Agursky (1933 - 1991) - one of the most lively and original sixties, dissident, refusenik, aliyah star of the seventies, professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a popular observer of the Israeli media, historian, political scientist, candidate for the Knesset on the Labor Party list in the 1991 elections, author of many journalistic and scientific articles and several books (including such significant ones as “The Third Rome” and “ The Ideology of National Bolshevism"), a participant in Solzhenitsyn’s famous collection “From Under the Blocks.” A fascinating biography of Mikhail Agursky, written with anger, passion, humor and love, turns out to be a biography of a most interesting historical era, or, rather, eras that include the lives of several generations. His book draws the reader into a powerful historical flow, from pre-revolutionary times to 1975, when the author climbs onto the plane leaving Russia.