The book by Irina Nikolaevna Zorina is one of the authentic testimonies of the generation of the sixties about the fate of society and the country. Irina Zorina clearly shows the hopes of the thaw and loss of the deaf in the 1970s; analyzes the chance historically given to the generation by perestroika. In the gallery of faces are the best people of the just-gone era: Yuri Karyakin, Yuri Lyubimov, Ales Adamovich and other iconic figures of politics (Evgeny Primakov) and culture (Naum Korzhavin, Vladimir Vysotsky, Ernst Neizvestny). I. N. Zorina – Spanish historian, specialist in Latin American countries; widow of Yu. F. Karyakin.