Politiki, predateli, proroki. Noveishaia istoriia Rossii v portretakh(1985-2012). - Cherniakhovskii S.

Almost a quarter of a century has passed since the Soviet Union fell under the onslaught of perestroika and "new thinking". A new generation has grown up, which in the mass no longer knows the tragic events of August and December 91, October 1993, vaguely imagines the default of 1998 ... And those who are older began to forget who is who of those who participated in the collapse of the Great Power and with what difficulty we got out of the cloaca of the 90s.

This book for the first and second. political science Sergei Felixovich Chernyakhovsky, a man who has seen a lot and even more - knowing about the key events of the recent history of Russia, Gorbachev and Yeltsin, Luzhkov and Chubais, Yavlinsky and Nemtsov, Kurginyan and Yakovlev and many others - up to our days, before Medvedev and Putin.

Portraits of these people, written by the hand of a talented publicist, give the reader an opportunity not only to immerse himself in the Kremlin political cuisine, but also to better understand those springs that moved the historical machinations of Russian statehood in two decades.

This book - awakens the memory of the forgotten, gives knowledge - to the unknown.