The enormous talent of Vladimir Sergeevich Bushin has long won thousands of admirers, and not only because its owner is known for his magnificent literary style, sharpness and depth in the presentation of material, accuracy in the smallest details, but also for his courageous civic position. Defense of the Fatherland - this is how we can briefly outline the main goal of Bushin’s life and work. The son of an officer, the grandson of a soldier - a veteran of the Russian-Japanese War, Vladimir Bushin himself defended our Motherland: since the fall of 1942, he was at the front, as part of the 54th Army, he went from Kaluga to Königsberg, and then fought the Japanese in Manchuria. At the front, he joined the Communist Party and remained faithful to it to this day. In his works, V. S. Bushin consistently defends the Soviet past, disdaining anti-Sovietism. He criticizes such Russian politicians and public figures as N. Mikhalkov, A. Yakovlev, E. Gaidar, E. Yevtushenko, F. Burlatsky, A. Sobchak, G. Yavlinsky, B. Yeltsin, D. Granin, V. Soloukhin, L. Razgon, A. Solzhenitsyn, S. Govorukhin, V. Shumeiko, E. Radzinsky, V. Novodvorskaya, G. Burbulis...The book offered to the attention of readers contains the best articles by V. S. Bushin in recent years, which are rightfully allow us to rank him among the classics of Russian thought.