In Russian history, the period of the 1970s-1980s is the time when the Soviet state entered the phase of active internal disintegration. The official ideology collapsed: the concepts on which it was built rapidly lost their original meaning, and rituals turned into a demonstrative formality. What lived in those years "underground" culture? How were formed circles of conceptualists and postmodernists , had great success in the late 1980s in the Western art markets? And what did the Western press write about them? The new book by Georgy Kisevalter continues the work, , , , Started in "Time of Hope" , [CM ) [ Time of Illusions" (CL) 122222442444444444444444444 » about the uncensored art of 1970-1980, the heroes of the era (including F. Infante, L. Rubinstein, W. Mosquito, A. Melamide, M. Chernyshov and others), the author himself and the Western periodicals of those years . As a result, the reader opens a three-dimensional picture of artistic life and unexpected “new” episodes of familiar history, prompting a review of the established view of this period. Georgy Kisevalter artist, writer, representative of the Moscow conceptual school, member of the creative group “Collective Actions” from 1976 to 1989 .