He was always a “leftist”; he was attracted by the idea of social justice - the intelligent equality of different people. He did not betray this idea, just as he did not betray a single person from among his employees, associates, fellow citizens, and loved ones. Gennady Nikolaevich Seleznev is a great politician and journalist of the late 20th - early 21st centuries, editor-in-chief of the Leningrad "Smena", "Komsomolskaya Pravda", "Teacher's newspaper", "Pravda", and then - chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation of two convocations. It is no coincidence that the book “Gennady Seleznev: about him and his time” has such a subtitle. His time... It is impossible to understand the reasons for people's actions and aspirations without understanding the time in which they lived. Especially when we are talking about the era of change that the citizens of the USSR had to go through in the 1980s–1990s. The book is published in electronic format in an abridged version.