In the second volume of the trilogy “BP. Between the Past and the Future,” the reader will meet the names of the author’s interlocutors, who defined an entire era of cultural and political life of our time; among them, Stalin’s translator V. Berezhkov, director of the US Institute G. Arbatov and A. Avtorkhanov, whose books, illegally entering the USSR, were hunted by the State Security Committee. Writers B. Okudzhava, A. Aleksin, V. Aksenov, Akhmadulina, A. Gladilin, I. Guberman, E. Limonov and S. Sokolov, S. Kramarov, directors M. Rozovsky and A. Konchalovsky, artists M. Shemyakin, B .Meserer... - conversations with many of them, as well as the texts of the author’s conversations with outstanding musicians R. Barshai and O. Lundstrem, were reprinted in Russian and American periodicals - with the consent of the author, and sometimes without. The book is presented with an introduction and afterword by the presenters literary critics and writers.