This book is a joint work of journalists and sociologists. The role of press in the society, its influence on people’s consciousness and social processes that took place in Russia in the second half of the twentieth century, and at the same time the problems of the modern press, are assessed in their interviews by R.N. Adzhubey, A.B. Borin, I.I. Vinogradov, A. I. Volkov, E.T. Gaidar, A.T. Gladilin, B.A. Grushin, T.I. Zaslavskaya. I. Volkov, E.T. Gaidar, A.T. Gladilin, B.A. Grushin, T.I. Zaslavskaya, I.S. Kon, V.A. Korotich, O.R. Latsis, Y.A. Levada, G.S. Lisichkin, and E.M. Lisichkin. Lisichkin, E.M. Maximova, S.B. Parkhomenko, I.E. Petrovskaya, Y.P. Senokosov, A.K. Simonov, R.S. Shakirov, E.V. Yakovlev and others. Of particular interest is the section «Documents», which reveals the mechanisms of censorship practiced by the USSR authorities against the press.