Описание: For Russia, 1990 was a year of unresolved tensions and embryonic change, coming between the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989, and the August 1991 coup that precipitated the collapse of the Soviet Union. This volume crystallises the confusion and aspirations of the Russian people in those months leading up to the end of the Communist regime. By bringing together articles, photographs, interviews with journalists and perceptive critical analyses, 1990 charts the key developments of that year: the abolition  of Article 6 of the constitution, and with it the Party's monopoly on political power; the rapid evolution of mass media and the emergence of a new class of entrepreneurs; a revolution in educational theory, a new openness about sex, a curiosity for religious cults and the paranormal; and a sudden craze for hot-air ballooning, banned in the Communist era. The documentary riches presented here also include excerpts from diaries, whose authors range from a right-wing patriot to an avant-garde artist and poet, an anti-Communist writer and a Gorbachev aide.  A landmark in cultural anthropology, 1990 offers a tantalising glimpse of the paths that might have been taken had Yeltsin’s coup not forced the issue the following year. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге 1990: Russians Remember a Turning Point. 1990-ый год: россияне помнят переломный момент (Irina Prokhorova)