Oleksandr Abarynov

Seventy-five years ago Moscow hosted the First Congress of Soviet Writers (Aug. 17 – Sept. 1, 1934). It turned out to be a singular event in terms of its scope, duration, and guests from abroad.We can visualize the 1930s in two dimensions: on the one hand, the first five-year plans that essentially...

When Anton Makarenko, aged 51, suddenly died in a train car, his heart was, according to the autopsist, torn in twain. The myocardial infarction sometimes develops precisely like that: the capillaries on a wall of the ventricle burst one by one until the entire surface turns blue. Then the healthy...