About the book: 2004 / David Sutter is an American journalist and writer, worked in Moscow as a correspondent for the English newspaper "Financial Times" from 1976 to 1982 . Later, he witnessed the dramatic events of perestroika, the collapse of the USSR and the formation of the new Russian state. In his book, David Sutter, talking about the most important events of recent times, seeks to show how these events affected the everyday life of ordinary Russian people from various social strata, why freedom and democracy led to a spiritual crisis and criminalization of society, why new spiritual values ​​could not fill the huge moral vacuum that formed after the fall of the communist regime.