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Dreams of an ideal society: Plato's ideas that have been working for 2500 years

Duration: 0:35:04

What is a state, republic, timocracy, oligarchy and democracy? How are these stages of the development of society related to the individual? Is it possible to create an ideal society? What happens when the laws of its construction are violated? There will be answers - in the program "Nature of Things".

Language: Russian
Topics: GreeksNew AcropolisPlatoPythagorasDemocracy

Intimate Man

Duration: 0:31:56

To the 120th anniversary of Andrei Platonov, Polk editors Varvara Babitskaya, Lev Oborin, Polina Ryzhova and Yuri Saprykin are discussing . Why do his books look more modern today than ever? Is he a Soviet writer? And what is the Soviet project for him? What is the peculiarity and strangeness of his language?

Language: Russian
Topics: LiteratureRussian LiteratureBrodskyBooksAndrei Platonovthe late seventies