Collected Works. Volume 12. 1986-2006

Without exaggeration, the well-known Russian writer Yuri Polyakov can be called the leading publicist of modern Russia. His articles, appearing on the pages of central periodicals, have elicited heated approval from some and fierce rejection from others for more than thirty years, but leave no one indifferent. The author writes vividly, argumentatively, figuratively, with piercing irony about the "desovietization of the country," about the "virus of moral deficit," about "state inadequacy," about the "silence of the Kremlin," about the "lost Victory," "about the lezginka at the Lobnoye Mesto," about "budget patriotism," about the "migrant elite," about the dominance of "sorosians" in our culture… Because of his article "The Opposition is Dead. Long Live the Opposition!" in October 1993, the authorities closed "Komsomolskaya Pravda." Polyakov's journalism is a passionate, stirring chronicle of our recent history.
For the first time, fans of the work of the "last Soviet writer" will be able to read them in the author's sharpest version - without cuts, abbreviations, and editorial corrections.

The twelfth volume of the fifteen-volume collected works of the writer. The book includes the journalism of Yuri Polyakov in all the fullness of the author's wit and mastery of the Russian language - without cuts, abbreviations, and compromises of editorial corrections.
Yuri Mikhailovich Polyakov is one of the most famous writers, poets, playwrights, and publicists of our time, the author of the novels "The Gypsum Trumpeter," "The Kid in Milk," and the series "Sovietnost." Many of the author's works have been filmed or adapted for the theatrical stage.
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