From "Sixties" to "Discent": a few words on the evolution of events
This article analyzes the sixties. The author explores the transformation of the basic philosophical principles of the liberal Soviet intelligentsia, and the most important of them is called historicism. The main conclusions of the article are made on the basis of analysis of books by Yuri Orlov “Dangerous Thoughts” and by Vladimir Bukovsky “Wind returns...” The author claims that the sixties equated the private time and historical one, but the dissidents began to absolute historicism.