The book by Vladimir V. Wiedemann, a journalist, writer, historian and anthropologist, is a unique document of the era: it provides an insider's view of the social and spiritual underground that was seething under the cover of the official ideology of the USSR in the 1960s–1980s. Perhaps every creative personality in one way or another joined this unspoken all-Union community - the first Soviet “flower children”, and representatives of dissident circles, and seekers of mystical revelations. The author, having been at the center of those events, allows us to plunge into the secret life of Soviet informals, who largely determined our current reality.