An activist in the struggle for the emigration of Soviet Jews, Academician Sakharov’s comrade-in-arms in the democratic movement in the USSR, political prisoner, Israeli minister Natan Sharansky has released his third book, which develops and complements the ideas expressed in his previous book “In Defense of Democracy.” If, as the title implies, it was devoted to proving the advantages of a democratic form of government, now the author postulates the insufficiency of “naked” democracy - only by relying on identity, cultural, national, religious, does democracy become a force capable of transforming the world for the better. “I wrote this book in defense of identity. I wrote it to explain why identity is not only in no way hostile to democracy, but, on the contrary, is necessary to preserve it. I wrote this book in an effort to explain why it is necessary for the health of society and for peace in the world that identity be kept within the framework of democracy, and democracy must be tied to the land by the bonds of identity. Identity without democracy can become fundamentalist and totalitarian. Democracy without identity can turn into superficial and meaningless,” the author explains the idea of his book.