"The Age of Madness" is a book about what preceded the collapse of a huge country, the USSR, about the times of Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko and Gorbachev. This book is a man who sincerely sympathizes with Russian people and honestly tries to understand a way of life alien to him. Beginning in the 1970s, David Sutter traveled the length and breadth of the Soviet Union. As a result, he managed to create a kind of document of the era, replete with testimonies of many eyewitnesses - famous and unknown.