World through the eyes of a dissident(about the book of V. Bukovsky "The wind returns.")

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the book of V. Bukovsky «The wind returns…» (in English version the book is titled «To Build a Castle»). The author maintains, that the book reflects the views of the young generation of nonconformists, who began the political struggle in the end of 1960-s on the reality and contemporaries. The author of the article finds the ideological and mental connection between dissidents of 1970-s and the older generation of liberal Soviet intelligentsia: A. Solzhenitsyn, L. Chukoskaya, A. Sakharov. The author presents the changes of the ideas inside the liberal Soviet intelligentsia and defines the differences in their views on reality and contemporaries.The author makes the conclusion about the exhaustion of mental and lexical thesaurus of the dissidents in the 1970-s.