How it was №1069 12.03.2000 (2000)

The great story of "Small Earth", 1976.

What is the "Little Land" and who is its author, every Soviet schoolboy knew.

This book was studied in the institutes, defended theses on it, it stood in a place of honor in all libraries of the country, and what epithets the journalists gave this book ...

Of the entire cycle of memoirs, whose author is Leonid Brezhnev, the most famous trilogy is "Little Land", "Revival" and "Tselina."

For the first time the trilogy was printed in the issues of the magazine "Novyi mir" for 1978, in the future the circulation of each book was 15 million copies.

The books were published separately and together, they were translated and sent to the national libraries of 120 countries.

In 1980, Leonid Brezhnev was awarded the Lenin Prize for Literature.

The guests of the program share their memories of Leonid Brezhnev, the birth and the embodiment of the idea of ​​memoirs.

The discussion is attended by TASS General Director in the 70s Leonid Zamyatin, writer-publicist Alexander Bovin, veteran of the Great Patriotic War and participant Battles in Tsemessky Bay Fedor Salozubov, personal referee Leonid Brezhnev Galina Doroshina, head of the publicity department of the magazine "New World" Grigory Reznichenko and writer Yuri Nikitin.

Included footage of the chronicle: Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow on June 24, 1945, an excerpt of a documentary about the trilogy, a chronicle of the war years and meetings Leonid Brezhnev with the veterans of the 18th Army, rewarding Leonid Brezhnev, fragments of the play on the book "The Little Land."