Yuri Polyakov is not afraid to present his development to the reader. His mistakes, delusions, hesitations, seductions, disappointments do not come from the desire to adapt, cling to, “fit in,” but from the desire to understand “where the fate of events is taking us?” In essence, the path that the young “progressive” prose writer has taken over the past thirty years, trying to heal the Soviet regime with the help of aggressive truth, has been followed by the entire thinking part of our society. We understood: if the word “freedom” is engraved on the handcuffs, they do not cease to be handcuffs. We have all changed. This volume includes interviews from 1986 to 2005.