About the book: 1991 / The tragicomic events that the author narrates in the novel "Angels on the Tip of a Needle", written in 1969-1979, take place in the editorial office central newspaper after the Prague Spring. Ideas sent down from above here turn into daily spiritual food for millions of readers. The heroes of the novel are journalists, editors, party officials at various levels, security officials, members of the Politburo, their wives, children, lovers, doctors, security guards, and informants. The reader finds himself behind the scenes of the Soviet ideological theater, to where the instructions about the thaw and about tightening the screws come from. The book is published for the first time in our country..