The World Turned Upside Down. – Donetsk: Donetsk National University, 2010. – 408 pp.
The author, a prominent professor of archaeology from St.-Petersburg, tells on his resisting to the Soviet judiciary system and on his “travel” to prison and labour camp in the beginning of 1980s. Disclosing the disturbances of civil rights the author advances not simply as a prey of totalitarian repressive machine. He approaches the theme as a scholar that has appeared in a difficult scientific expedition and is ready to investigate the poorly accessible milieu. He has found in the criminal world many analogies with a primitive society and became interested in the causes of such similarities. This led him to thoughts on the nature of man, on blurs of our penitentiary system and on the character of our contemporary society. The book produced a discussion in the academic world. Opinions of known scholars are adduced.
© Donetsk National University, 2010
© Klejn L.S., 2010
© Author of project A.V.Yevglevsky, 2010
© D.V.Pilipenko, layout, 2010
