Maksim Kantor analyzes the concept and ideal of democracy and shows how their understanding in Russia has evolved recently. He includes in his analyses many actual ideas, concepts and realities such the idea of empire, barrack capitalism, goals of WWII, human rights and totalitarianism, Petrine reforms and market economy, etc. The book consists of sixteen essays with various topics. Also available by the same Uchebnik V Dvukh Tomakh (2006); Vecher s Babuinom (2008).
Maxim Karlovich Kantor, is a famous Russian painter, writer, essayist and social commentator of an openly philosophical turn, and, as he once said, "one profession proceeds from the other".