Peak hour 29.08.1996 (1996)

The guest of the program is an associate professor of the Department of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (GITIS) Igor Chubais.

The conversation is devoted to the question "Was there communism in the country?" and the general theme of the New Russia.

Myths about socialism and democracy, the economic crisis and the results of privatization, the lack of a global national idea as the main driving force of the state are discussed.

At the end of the program, the traditional answers to the audience's phone calls, as well as the host presents the book by I. B. Chubais "From the Russian Idea-to the idea of a New Russia" and the almanac "New Milestones".