ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF MOM-POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, OR MIKHAIL GEF-TER
The paper considers tragic changes in the Russian society in the second half of the twentieth century through the prism of the biography of a historian, dissident and philosopher M.J. Hefter. His life reflects the complex history of our country, confrontation between the personality and the system, passionate search for answers to eternal questions such as freedom, personal responsibility of the citizen, honour and dignity.