80 years of solitude

A new book by the famous Russian scientist and social scientist Igor Kon is a kind of intellectual autobiography. Igor Kon worked all my life at the crossroads of different social Sciences and Humanities: sociology, history, anthropology, psychology and sexology. His name is closely linked birth in Russia such disciplines as history, sociology of personality, psychology of adolescence, Ethnography of childhood, sexology. Some of his books were breaking habitual representations and have become bestsellers. Free, entertaining, at times very self-critical Con tells about himself and his time: as shaped his academic interests that prompted him to move from one set of problems and disciplines to other how free was this choice and how his personal interests intersect with the problems of society. The contemporaries of the author that can evoke your own memories, and youth will help you better understand our recent past, which is perhaps not so past...