The book is an expanded and corrected edition of a preprint published by the Memorial Society for the 30th anniversary of the “glasnost rally.” This publication is supplemented by recordings of interviews with Yu. Polyusuk, E. Molchanov, M. Rozanova, V. Muravyov, memoirs of I. Christie, stored in the archives of the Scientific Research Center "Memorial", excerpts from the published memoirs of E. Kushev, A. Levitin (Krasnov), L. Alekseeva, Yu. Glazov, fragments of samizdat articles by V. Gershuni and G. Shimanov; The corpus of published archival documents has also been replenished with a number of departmental and Komsomol-party materials identified in recent years in the fund of the General Department of the CPSU Central Committee.