Chronicle of the XXVIII Congress of the CPSU, interview fragments (1990)

Interview with Svyatoslav Fedorov: the academician discusses the psychology of the Russian people in relation to the construction of socialism and democracy. S. N. Fedorov expresses support for B. N. Yeltsin.

Opinion on the political activities of B. N. Yeltsin and M. S. Gobachev.

Collective property in capitalist countries as an example of the transformation of capitalism into socialism.

Criticism of the bureaucratic system of the USSR. An example of the work of Marxist theory at the Institute of Eye Microsurgery.

Work on the basis of a collective contract. S. N. Fedorov on the need to reduce the number of the Central Committee of the CPSU. A statement for the press about a utopian state.

A representative of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU reads out an address by V. N. Shostakovsky to the press.

Reflections on the XXVIII Congress, criticism of the CPSU. The idea of forming a new democratic party.

Announcement of a press conference of the Democratic Platform at the Cinema Center on Krasnaya Presnya.

Vyacheslav Shostakovsky bids farewell to journalists at the end of the interview.

Excerpts from an interview with deputies: discussion of B.N. Yeltsin's decision to leave the party.

Boris Pugo for TASS: events of the congress, comments on B.N. Yeltsin's action, opinion on the speech of V.N. Shostakovsky and other representatives of the Democratic Platform in the CPSU.