The popular science documentary book will allow a wide range of readers of today's Russia to get a clear idea of ​ ​ how and on what basis the new culture of our recent socialist state was built and who - in a single person - has been its appraiser and final judge for almost three decades. The book partially uses archival materials published in the collections of documents "Power and Artistic Intelligentsia," "Great Censorship" and in a number of other book and periodicals of the last decade.