About the book: 1971 / This Collected Works and Letters of Saltykov-Shchedrin, in which the experience and materials of the previous edition are critically used, is carried out taking into account the latest achievements of Soviet Shchedrin studies. The collection is the most complete of all existing ones and includes all the currently known works of the writer, both completed and unfinished. “Well-Intentioned Speeches” were initially formed as a journalistic, magazine cycle. This explains both the dynamism and efficiency of the response to the profound shifts and changes that took place in Russian reality in the late 60s - mid-70s, as well as the breadth of life observations. Their scope here includes the extremely rapid processes of capitalization of post-reform Russia, and the fate of the landowner economy after the reform of February 19, 1861, and the state of folk morals, and everyday, philistine provincial life. http://ruslit.traumlibrary.net