Yegor’s generation tried to square the circle: how could one reconcile socialism, which rejected private ownership, with individual initiative, and the idea of a “party-minded” media with the free flow of information? This was not a philosophical question but a highly practical one. These people had an allegiance to the Bolshevik ideas of social justice and equality, but they wanted a good life for themselves and for their children, a life no worse than the lives of their counterparts in the “decaying” West.
