Сталин. Нашей юности полет

Aleksandr Zinovʹev - vydai͡ushchiĭsi͡a russkiĭ pisatelʹ, sot͡siolog, filosof, publit͡sist. V knige, kotorui͡u vy sobiraetesʹ prochitatʹ, on provodit glubokiĭ analiz stalinskoĭ ėpokhi i lichnosti Stalina. Sam avtor tak govorit o svoëm proizvedenii: "Nazvanie ėtoĭ knigi vzi͡ato iz slov pesni, kotorui͡u sovetskie li͡udi peli v stalinskie vremena ("Stalin - nasha slava boevai͡a. Stalin - nasheĭ i͡unosti polet….". I͡A pel ėtu pesni͡u i ne chuvstvoval v neĭ falʹshi. I͡A chuvstvoval v neĭ chto-to drugoe, a imenno: vsesokrushai͡ushchiĭ uragan velikoĭ istorii. V ėtoĭ knige i͡a khochu rasskazatʹ nemnogo o tom, kak osoznavalsi͡a i oshchushchalsi͡a ėtot istoricheskiĭ uragan nekotorymi predstaviteli͡ami moego pokolenii͡a, vovlechennymi v nego, o tom, chem byl stalinizm dli͡a nas".

Alexander Zinoviev is an outstanding Russian writer, sociologist, philosopher, and publicist. In the book you are about to read, he conducts an in-depth analysis of the Stalin era and the personality of Stalin. The author himself says this about his work: "The title of this book is taken from the words of a song that Soviet people sang in Stalin's times ("Stalin is our military glory. Stalin is the flight of our youth....". I sang this song and didn't feel false in it. I felt something different in her, namely, the all-destroying hurricane of great history. In this book, I want to tell you a little about how this historical hurricane was realized and felt by some representatives of my generation involved in it, about what Stalinism was for us."