The “Happy Life” series is about the destinies of people of the 20th century, who became not just witnesses, but participants in the gigantic events of the 20th century. The book “The Dissenter Theodore” was born from a many-hour interview given to the author of the series, Alexander Arkhangelsky. Sociologist, founder of the Moscow School of Social Sciences and Social Sciences (the famous Shaninki) Theodor Shanin is, without exaggeration, a man of Great History: Vilna in the 1930s, exile to Altai, Samarkand, flight through Poland to France, the war for young Israel, the revolution in England in 1968, the creation of the first international university in Russia. And - like the dry residue of trials - happiness. The happiness of a person who lives his life as he sees fit. Happiness is living above the tragedy of History.