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One of the most important places in the history of the Great October Socialist Revolution, the centenary of which we are celebrating this year, is occupied by the outstanding work of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, best known as the April Theses.

Its full title is On the Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution. Ten Lenin's theses, which form the basis of this work, fully reflect the moral, political and socio-economic principles on which the Bolshevik Party relied in its opposition to the chaos that engulfed the country after the February Revolution. The Party was also guided by these theses in its struggle to build a new society, to build a socialist state.

It will soon be 100 years since this landmark work of the leader of the world proletariat saw the light of day. Lenin wrote it on April 3 (April 16, according to the new style), 1917, and took as the basis for two of his program speeches at meetings held the next day in Petrograd - at a meeting of the Bolsheviks in the Kshesinskaya mansion and at a meeting of Bolsheviks and Mensheviks - participants in the All-Russian Conference of Workers' Soviets and soldiers' deputies in the Tauride Palace. On April 7, Lenin's theses were published in the Pravda newspaper and reprinted in other Bolshevik publications.

Time for the great turn

This work of Lenin is small in volume, it fits on five pages of printed text. But its historical significance is enormous. It is the most important document reflecting a fateful turning point in the history of the Russian revolutionary movement. A turning point, thanks to which the liberal-bourgeois transformations that followed the abdication of the last Russian monarch were replaced by socialist transformations within a few months. And at the same time, the "April Theses" prove the strength of Lenin's genius, the amazing political insight of the founder of the Soviet state.

In Russia, which had just experienced the fall of a thousand-year-old monarchy, Vladimir Ilyich returned from forced emigration just a few hours before the April Theses were written. But in this work, he gave such a deep and accurate assessment of the situation in the country and the prospects for the development of the revolutionary movement, which was not capable of any political figure from those who observed the events of February from the inside and directly participated in them.

It is here, in the April Theses, that Lenin is the first to unconditionally declare the February historical turn in the history of Russia as an intermediate one, which will inevitably be followed by a new and most important stage: the transfer of power into the hands of the people and the socialist transformation of the country. The fact that February is only a prerequisite for such a transformation, Lenin declares, relying on Marxist dialectics, on the Marxist understanding of the laws of history. And therefore, already a month after the February Revolution, he says with all confidence: “The peculiarity of the current situation in Russia consists in the transition from the first stage of the revolution, which gave power to the bourgeoisie due to the insufficient consciousness and organization of the proletariat, to its second stage, which should give power to the hands of the proletariat and the poorest strata of the peasantry.

And then, already in the notes to his theses, Lenin asserts with final clarity about the Bolshevik political doctrine as a communist doctrine. Declares the need to dissociate the Bolsheviks from those half-hearted attitudes that turned out to be dominant in the social democratic movement. Which entails the need to change the very name of the party: “Instead of “social democracy, whose official leaders throughout the world have betrayed socialism, ... we must call ourselves the Communist Party,” writes Lenin.

These Leninist words fully resonate with today, when most of the parties and political movements - primarily Western ones - that consider themselves to be “left”, have almost completely abandoned Marxist attitudes and are increasingly drifting towards liberal ideology. The "left liberals" of Europe and America, in fact, are in solidarity with the basic principles of global capitalism, only adding to them a limited set of social requirements, the implementation of which cannot solve the problems inherent in the capitalist system as such. Moreover, the social and anti-globalization accents in the programs of Western "left liberals" are increasingly becoming even weaker than in the programs of their opponents from the "right" camp. This, in our opinion, is the main reason for the increasingly obvious crisis of confidence in left-liberal parties and political leaders in today's world and the rapid strengthening of the positions of right-wing conservative politicians, which we are now seeing in America and Europe.

The modern “leftist” elite of the West is increasingly clearly degenerating into a purely liberal elite, committing the same betrayal of socialism that Lenin spoke about when assessing the situation in the social democratic movement of the early 20th century. And thus, just like 100 years ago, this elite is bringing its collapse closer. The crisis of these so-called leftists in the West is not at all connected with the fact that the truly left-wing mood in the world is weakening, that the desire of people for social justice is not strong enough. On the contrary, this crisis is connected with the unwillingness and inability of the “left liberals” to meet the growing demands, which are acquiring an increasingly pronounced socialist character.

Understanding this and being convinced of the obviousness with which the laws of the development of political processes, outlined by Lenin 100 years ago, are confirmed in our time, we, modern communists, must be firmly aware of the correctness of our position, our choice. Realize that history itself confirms the correctness of those who firmly uphold the Marxist-Leninist principles and continue to persistently fight for their implementation, seeing this as the only alternative to today's crisis. Lenin's theses remind us of what we must rely on in this struggle, none of which has lost its relevance and value even today.

No government support

The "April Theses" answer the fundamental questions that confronted the communists at the beginning of the last century, and today confront us, the heirs of the Leninist party. This is a question about the attitude of communists to the power established in the country and to the system that this power is building. This is a question of property and what kind of state, what kind of system the communists will build when they take power into their own hands. When Lenin announced his theses, many simply frightened his directness and adherence to principles. But time proved Lenin's correctness. And this should inspire us today, when the political and socio-economic situation in the country is becoming more and more similar to the situation of a hundred years ago.

Giving an assessment of those liberal-bourgeois forces that came to power as a result of the February Revolution as forces that serve the interests of world capital and are far from the interests of the people, Lenin categorically excludes any support for these forces by the communists, any alliance with them. He unconditionally insists on “a complete break in practice with all the interests of capital” and calls: “No support for the provisional government, an explanation of the complete falsity of all its promises ...” Hence follows the tactics of political struggle, which Lenin formulates in his theses: “So far we are in the minority , we are doing the work of criticizing and clarifying mistakes, while at the same time preaching the need to transfer all state power to the Soviets of Workers' Deputies ... "

These Leninist principles and requirements are fully consistent with the position of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in relation to the policy pursued by the current Russian government of market liberals - the ideological twins of the Provisional Government of 1917, who surpassed their predecessors both in cynicism towards the people and in managerial helplessness. We are the only political force that consistently opposes all anti-people initiatives of the Cabinet of Ministers. The only political force that never votes for the budget of degradation and collapse, annually imposed on the country by the government. The only political force that insists on the replacement of the current irresponsible cabinet by the Government of People's Trust, offers a clear program of action and is able to ensure its implementation.

The very name "Provisional Government", associated with the specific political circumstances that arose after the February Revolution, also has a symbolic meaning. By its actions, this government has fully proved that it is a government of temporary workers, alien to the true interests of the country and the people. The power of such temporary workers cannot but give rise to a fundamental conflict with society, which for them ends in inevitable collapse. But the temporary workers, who were brought to power by February, did not last even a year. Their reign collapsed as swiftly as the monarchy they had replaced. And the current temporary workers - the ideological followers of those of that time - have been holding power in their hands for more than a quarter of a century. Only certain personalities change. But the government that determines the socio-economic fate of modern Russia remains essentially the same. Because the essence of the government's policy, its adherence to recipes that are destructive for Russia, "prescribed" by foreign "curators" hostile to our country, has not changed since the early 1990s.

What keeps them in power for so long? Due to what the current "Provisional Government" of the destroying liberals has been held for more than 25 years? Lenin's "April Theses" help us answer this question by comparing the current situation with the situation a century ago.

Temporary technologies

Speaking about the favorable political prospects of the Bolsheviks, Lenin in his work emphasizes that after the February Revolution they can act as legally as possible. This is facilitated by the political situation that has developed after the overthrow of the monarchy: "Russia is now the freest country in the world of all the warring countries." This was the historical paradox favorable for the Leninist party: the growing chaos and anarchy after February, from which only the communists could save the country, was accompanied by a weakening of political pressure on them, which made it easier to fight for power. And what accelerated the transition of power into the hands of the Bolsheviks, which was saving for Russia. This is also the fundamental difference between the situation of that time and the situation of today, when helplessness and chaos in managing the economy and the social sphere are combined with maximum mobilization and rigidity of the authorities in the matter of political self-preservation.

Having come to power as a result of the collapse of the USSR, liberal extremists began to rapidly destroy and plunder the country and very quickly lost the support of even that part of society that unconditionally supported them during the years of perestroika that preceded the anti-Soviet coup of the early 1990s. The Yeltsin-Gaidar team enjoyed mass support a little longer than the Provisional Government of 1917. But to maintain her power, she used frankly fascist methods, which made themselves felt both during the execution of the Supreme Council in October 1993, and during that shameless bacchanalia into which the authorities turned the presidential elections of 1996. So the new "Provisional Government" was able to accomplish what its predecessors had failed to do in 1917.

And with the beginning of the 21st century, it made a bet on what was in principle inaccessible to the temporary workers of the early 20th century:

On modern technologies of mass propaganda brainwashing;

Strengthened planting of values ​​that contribute to the intellectual and moral degradation of society;

Cynical and criminal manipulations in elections.

It is on these three “pillars” that the illusion of “stability” and “reconciliation” of the impoverished people with the oligarchy that has seized Russian resources and its henchmen in power has been based for the past decade and a half. "Reconciliation", to which the authorities are hypocritically calling for a country where the incomes of the absolute majority of citizens have been rapidly and non-stop declining for more than two years in a row. Where 72 people out of 100 live on 15 thousand rubles or less per month. Where industry and the social sphere continue to degrade, and the fabulous wealth of large owners - dollar millionaires and billionaires - is only growing. Where nine-tenths of the national wealth is concentrated in the hands of one percent of the moneybags.

In such an ugly situation, which is typical only for the most backward economies of the world, the normal development of the country is impossible in principle. And the current masters of the country are calling on us to “reconcile” with this, ready to shamelessly exploit even the sacred feelings for the people associated with the reunification of Russia and Crimea, with our support for the struggle of Donbass and Luhansk against the Bandera clique in Ukraine. To exploit to justify the destructive policies pursued within Russia and to preserve a system that threatens the country with a social and economic catastrophe.

Paying tribute to the genius of Lenin, who stood at the head of the greatest transformations in world history, we must simultaneously recognize that the conditions of the struggle in which we have to act are even more difficult, more difficult to resolve the issue of power and property than those that fell to the lot of the Bolsheviks. in 1917. It is all the more important for us to remember Lenin's call, sounded in the April Theses, "to adapt to the special conditions of Party work among the unheard-of large masses of the proletariat, who have just awakened to political life."

rescue program

The problems aggravated during the crisis inevitably lead to the growth of the protest potential, to the political awakening of the society. Our task is to contribute to this awakening every day. At the same time, not allowing the protest potential to escalate into anarchy and chaos, which is what our opponents from the camp of the “liberal opposition” dream of and persistently provoke. In a situation where, through the fault of the authorities, a socio-economic crisis entails a political crisis, only the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and its consistent allies can direct the growing discontent in society into the direction of a meaningful struggle of the people for their legitimate rights. For the revival of the welfare state, for the implementation of the socialist program declared by Lenin in the April Theses:

- "Nationalization of all lands in the country"

- "Immediate merger of all banks in the country into one nationwide bank ..."

- "Pay to all officials, with the election and turnover of all of them at any time, is not higher than the average wage of a good worker"

The implementation of these proposals is directly reflected in the program of the Communist Party.

We are the only party that stubbornly resisted the introduction of private ownership of land by market liberals. Time has proven us right: the transfer of land into the hands of large owners leads to the degradation of the agricultural sector and the economy as a whole. As the international situation worsens, ensuring the country's independence in the food sector is becoming an increasingly acute issue of Russia's security.

We also demand the nationalization of the raw material industries, as well as the most important industrial enterprises, without which it is impossible to ensure the inflow into the treasury of the funds necessary to ensure the full development of the country, its technological renewal, and modernization of the economy.

Without Lenin's nationalization, the feat of Stalin's industrialization would have been impossible, which made it possible in the shortest possible time to overcome the centuries-old backwardness of Russia and build a powerful industrial and social infrastructure. To ensure such a defense that allowed the USSR to resist the most powerful, predatory and ruthless enemy. In the same way, without the nationalization, which the Communist Party insists on, it is impossible to stop the further degradation of the economy and the social sphere, which threatens the very existence of Russia as a single and independent state.

We insist on the release of Russia's financial system from external control, which today is directly served by the country's banks, which profess the cult of liberal monetarism and directly contribute to the strangulation of domestic producers with the help of extortionate lending rates. Like Lenin in 1917, we today proclaim the need for a centralized banking system. Creation of the State Bank, which will be such not only in name, but also in deeds, without which the Russian economy will never wait for the vital investments it needs.

We are convinced that those who come there not out of a desire to get rich, but out of a desire to benefit the country and people, should go to power. Therefore, it is necessary to deprive those coming to power of selfish incentives that unconditionally prevail in the sphere of power today. This is exactly what Lenin meant when he spoke of the need for legislative restrictions on the incomes of officials. And this is what the Communist Party insists on today.

In the April Theses, Lenin says that one of the main problems slowing down the transition from the liberal-bourgeois stage of the revolution to the socialist stage is the trusting and unconscious attitude of the masses "toward the government of the capitalists, the worst enemies of peace and socialism." The same problem is facing us, today's communists, who are opposed to the new "Provisional Government", which has been too late in power. And this problem can only be solved by persistently appealing to the people and using for this every opportunity and the most diverse forms of enlightenment, explanation and agitation.

The fact that the problems are growing and becoming more unbearable is every day more obvious to the citizens of the country. But we are obliged to direct all our efforts to ensure that society realizes that the root of the problems, the source of the crisis situation is in the very system of capitalist relations. The fact that the current Russian government is committed to this system in its wildest, most barbaric and destructive forms. And today, the ultimate goal to which it is necessary to strive in order for the country to begin to revive is the same as Lenin’s “April Theses” speak of. What is needed is not just a change of power, but a replacement of the system of oligarchic capitalism with a socialist system. Humane and highly spiritual system.

Socialism or turmoil

Just like 100 years ago, today the opponents of socialism are trying to accuse Lenin and his comrades-in-arms of pushing the country towards civil war by putting forward the program stated in the April Theses. This is a shameless lie. Even then, in April 1917, Lenin convincingly refuted it in the notes to his theses.

All conscientious historians admit that after the Bolsheviks came to power, the bloody confrontation was provoked not by them, but by those who tried to oppose the building of socialism in our country. And about the prospects of a civil war, they shouted the loudest in advance precisely because they were ready to unleash it. They were ready to kindle the fire of a fratricidal war - if only to preserve the power of capital, in which the gigantic incomes of a handful of "elected" are provided with deprivation and poverty of the absolute majority. Objectively speaking, the war they organized was not a civil one. It was a war against Russia, unleashed by an international coalition of its external and internal enemies, united by the interests of capital and hatred of socialism, hatred of the awakened people.

But if the Bolsheviks in 1917 did not follow the path outlined in Lenin's "April Theses", if they faltered and agreed to a compromise with the liberal-bourgeois authorities, Russia, which was plunging into chaos, would have expected complete disintegration and even greater losses. . Lenin was clearly aware of this at that time, and we must realize it today.

Only the continuation of the current destructive course can push the country towards a bloody anarchic turmoil. And only the implementation of our demands and our ideas, inheriting the precepts of Lenin, will keep Russia from collapse and return it to the path of successful development. We have on our side the rightness of the great predecessors, confirmed by history, and their outstanding experience. Our duty is to follow this experience and use it worthily for the benefit of the Motherland, whose peaceful existence and prosperity can only be guaranteed by renewed socialism.


The problem of the essence of money occupies one of the most important places in Marxist-Leninist theory. It is no coincidence that K. Marx begins his analysis of the capitalist formation with commodity circulation and money. The latter, however, undergo great changes as capitalism develops. In particular, the emergence of monopolies and the strengthening of the economic role of the state had a significant impact on the reproduction of capital, credit, finance and money.
A great contribution to the study of new phenomena in the sphere of monetary circulation of monopoly capitalism, and above all to questions of the theory of money, was made by Soviet scientists Z. V. Atlas, S. M. Borisov, F. P. Bystrov, E. S. Varga, G. A. Kozlov, V. T. Krotkov, I. A. Trachtenberg, Ya. However, more than 20 years have passed since the publication of his last work.
During this time, the sphere of domination of capitalism has narrowed, the world system of socialism has strengthened, the colonial support of imperialism has collapsed, and the class struggle has intensified. There was a further deepening of the general crisis of capitalism, which was reflected in the internal processes of reproduction and circulation in the capitalist countries. State-monopoly regulation has now spread to the sphere of production, and to domestic money circulation, to employment and the state of the balance of payments, to the sectoral structure of the economy and the position of national currencies.
Under these conditions, the studies of bourgeois economists were intensified, developing "models of development" of capitalism and giving their own recipes for its treatment. Counting on the inviolability of capitalist production relations, they naturally fixed their eyes on the regulation of the production process through the sphere of circulation. This, in particular, explains the appearance in the West of many works whose authors try to wrest money and credit from production, proving that all the ills of capitalism lie in the inferiority of money.
All this cannot escape the attention of Marxist scholars. Recently, many studies by Soviet economists have been published on the problems of inflation, the credit systems of the capitalist countries, and the crisis in the currency relations of capitalism. However, works on the theory of money of modern capitalism are clearly not enough.
How did the departure from the gold standard in all its forms affect the circulation of money? What is modern money? Do they retain their connection to gold, and if so, how? What is the role of gold now? What's new in the functions of money? What is the evolution of the forms of money and what is it due to? What kind of money functions in international trade and what is the difference between world and national money circulation? All these questions are of great importance for understanding the essence of many phenomena in the practice of modern capitalism. It is possible to answer them only by analyzing the new phenomena in the development of capitalism as a whole.
Based on the Marxist-Leninist methodology, the author of this monograph offers the reader a concept that contains answers to the questions posed above. On the basis of extensive historical material, he convincingly shows that each socio-economic formation has its own forms of money. In this he sees the unity of form and content. Within the framework of individual formations, especially in conditions of a multi-structural economy, various forms of money appear, but in the end one of them takes over and becomes dominant. For modern state-monopoly capitalism, the main form of money is credit money. In this regard, the issue of the demonetization of gold deserves special attention.
The demonetization of gold, or the loss of the functions of money during the period of the general crisis of capitalism, is a historical process. It is just as objective as the promotion of gold in its time as the main form of money, the basis of money circulation and currency relations of capitalism. The great merit of K. Marx is that in the conditions of pre-monopoly capitalism, in the presence of many types of money and with the long existence of bimetallism, he scientifically substantiated the displacement of silver by gold. The brilliant prediction of K. Marx was fully confirmed: in the late XIX - early XX centuries. in all the main capitalist countries, a gold-coin standard was established. Paper money issued from time to time by the treasuries of different countries, as well as bank credit money, obeyed the laws of circulation of gold coins and were their representatives. This whole process is well illustrated in the book.
The objective nature of the emergence of new patterns of development of capitalism at its monopoly stage was scientifically substantiated by V. I. Lenin in his work “Imperialism, as the highest stage of capitalism”, where, in particular, the new role of banks as monopolistic associations is revealed. This could not but leave its mark on the banking systems, which had their own influence on the nature of money and their functions.
In this regard, and bearing in mind other new phenomena in the development of capitalism, the author rightly notes that the demonetization of gold is not an accidental, but an objective and regular process corresponding to the new conditions for the development of capitalism. With the abolition of the gold standard in all its forms, gold leaves, not only from circulation, but also ceases to perform the function of a measure of value, and, consequently, to be a universal equivalent. This position is shared by many Soviet economists and Marxist scholars in foreign countries. At the same time, a number of Soviet researchers do not agree with this point of view. So, for example, M. Yu. Bortnik, I. D. Zlobin, A. I. Stadnichenko, Ya. A. Kronrod, B. V. Mayorov and some others believe that money circulation cannot function without gold. The main argument of the position defended by these scholars is that money circulation cannot function without real money, which, in their opinion, can only be gold.
GG Matyukhin rightly asserts in his work that the demonetization of gold does not at all mean that capitalism is left without real money. Another form of real money arose - credit money, which, although it exists on paper, cannot be called paper money. Credit money is not a symbol or sign of a commodity-money (for example, gold). They are quite independent and equal to gold. These two forms of money (commodity-money and credit money) did not develop in stages, that is, when one form, as it were, grew into another. On the contrary, they developed each on its own basis and coexisted in such a way that one form of money gradually forced the other out of circulation. This process was usually accompanied by significant crisis upheavals.
The author not only reveals the process of demonetization of gold, but also shows that credit money has taken its place as the basis of modern money circulation. The latter perform not only the functions of a purchasing and means of payment, but also the function of a measure of value. Hence it is concluded that modern credit money, unlike the former ones (the period of pre-monopoly capitalism) and paper money, are not tokens of gold.
The question may arise, what are modern credit money? How, having no value, do they fulfill the function of a measure of value? The author does not avoid answering these difficult questions. He rightly connects the development of credit money under capitalism with the circulation of capital and the transformation of money into capital. The functions of credit money and the metamorphosis of the monetary form of capital are considered in the monograph as a single process. This allows the author to conclude that credit money is directly related to the movement of capital in its productive and commodity forms. As one of the forms of capital, money reflects commodity values ​​without the mediation of metal.
The fulfillment of the function of a measure of value by credit money is due to the fact that they have an exchange value, without having their own abstract value. This is their difference from gold as a commodity-money.
possessing two use values ​​(as a concrete commodity and as money), as well as abstract and exchange (Values. Even K. Marx convincingly showed that as gold was turned into money, both the use value of a particular commodity and its abstract price.
The use value of money consists in the fact that it, regardless of its form, is the bearer of exchange value. Based on this position of K. Marx, the author notes that already in the conditions of metal circulation, a worn-out coin circulated on an equal footing with a full-fledged one only because both of them had the same exchange value with a difference in the abstract values ​​contained in them. This Marxian position on the difference between exchange and abstract values ​​served as the author's methodological basis for analyzing the essence of credit money. Money, according to the author, while retaining its exchange value, gradually loses its own abstract value, which is a materialization of the costs of human labor. This is of fundamental importance for credit money. The latter have only exchange value, which is the monetary expression of the abstract values ​​of commodities.
Thus, the author has a logical conception of the essence of modern credit money, based on Marxist methodology, which consists in the fact that credit money is based on the circulation of capital, that is, on the movement of real commodity values. Credit money performs all monetary functions, including the measure of value, and therefore, they are the universal exchange equivalent. The latter is due to the fact that the exchange value of commodities is embodied in credit money, and not its own abstract value.
However, it should be noted that we cannot agree with some of the author's conclusions. We are talking about the expanded-monetary form of value. The author is convinced that the acquisition of a greater degree of independence by exchange value in credit money than in commodity-money made it possible to move beyond the spiral of the dialectical development of value from a simple form of value to an expanded one and from an expanded one to a monetary one.
There has been a return to the expanded form of exchange value, but at a higher stage in the development of commodity production. If the former form was the expanded-commodity form of value, he argues, now it is the expanded-monetary form of value. However, no matter what the author writes about the "spiral of development" or "new round", any expanded form of value excludes a universal equivalent. And in general, is a detailed-monetary form of value possible? In this formulation of the question, money cannot perform the function of a measure of value. In our opinion, this also contradicts some provisions of the book.
If commodity circulation is unthinkable without money, this means that commodities are unthinkable without prices. Therefore, all commodities are opposed by money, or, in other words, a universal equivalent. Commodities cannot be directly compared with each other except in the money form of their values. This, in fact, is the meaning of the universal exchange equivalent, through which the function of the measure of value is fulfilled. Therefore, the author's thesis about the emergence of some new expanded form of value, and even more so of monetary value, leads away from the logical concept as a whole.
Very disputable, in our opinion, is the interpretation of non-equivalent exchange.
Of great interest is the section of the book devoted to money circulation in the world capitalist market. First of all, the question of world money attracts attention. The author's conclusion is certainly correct that modern world money only repeats (of course, in a specific form) the path that national money has gone through. Here, too, gold has lost its function as money, retaining only the role of a reserve of international liquid funds, and credit money has taken the dominant position.
The author also notes the differences in the evolution of credit money in the national and world turnover. On a national scale, the development of credit money had the following sequence: bill of exchange - accepted bill - banknotes - checks and settlement money. In the international circulation, such an important link as the world banknote is still missing. National banknotes, or the currencies of the largest capitalist countries, are claiming its place. This gives rise to antagonistic contradictions between the capitalist countries and exacerbates crises in the international monetary system.
The work traces the struggle between the German mark, the French franc, the British pound sterling and the American dollar since the beginning of the 20th century. In this struggle, the dollar won, which after the Second World War managed to win a dominant position among the currencies of the capitalist countries. However, an attempt to resolve the contradiction between the international nature of world currency relations and the national nature of credit money was not successful.
The reader will find extensive material in this book proving the inability of national currencies to continuously perform the functions of world money, regardless of the economic power of a particular country. This is clearly seen in the current conditions, when, after the collapse of the Bretton Woods monetary system, the functions of world money are performed by several national currencies. Bourgeois economists and statesmen in the capitalist countries are trying to work out new principles of the international monetary system that would meet the changed conditions. However, the contradictions between capitalist production and circulation turned out to be stronger than their striving for unity in these matters.
The book by G. G. Matyukhin, original in posing problems, will certainly find a lively response from the reader, it will help to understand many issues not only of domestic money circulation, but also in the sphere of intricate international monetary relations.
Shenaev V. N. doctor of economic sciences

Nature traditionally occupies one of the most important places in the work of any poet. Each of them creates his own unique world, his own image of nature, which corresponds to his experiences, feelings, thoughts. To trace how the image of nature changes in the work of a particular poet means to see how he himself changed, what happened to him during his life, what new ideas he had, and what remained unchanged to the end.

This is especially true of Pushkin's poetry - after all, his lyrics have such a strong biographical beginning that

All stages of the poet's work directly reflect the cardinal changes in his life. And Pushkin's image of nature also changes simultaneously with the change in his inner world.

In his early work - in the lyceum and St. Petersburg periods - Pushkin followed in the description of landscapes various traditions, coming from classicism, sentimentalism and romanticism. Then he had not yet determined his own position in relation to nature. The poet did not strive for this at that time, because all the main disappointments that pushed him to search for his place in the world, his support, were still ahead. For example, the traditions of classicism clearly

Can be traced in the poem "Memories in Tsarskoe Selo" of 1814. The author inhabits the natural world with divine ancient forces:

There, in a quiet lake, naiads are splashing

His lazy wave;

And there in silence are huge halls,

Leaning on the vaults, they rush to the clouds.

Is it not here that the earthly gods led peaceful days?

Isn't Minevra a Russian temple?

Pushkin follows sentimental traditions in the depiction of nature, for example, in the poem "The Village" of 1819. The landscape in it is rather arbitrary and forms a single image of a “desert corner”, “a haven of tranquility, work and inspiration”:

… love this dark garden

With its coolness and flowers,

This meadow, lined with fragrant stacks,

Where bright streams rustle in the bushes.

In this poem, the natural and perfect world of nature is opposed to the world of people who are not free from their vices and delusions:

I am here, freed from vain shackles,

I am learning to find bliss in truth,

To idolize the law with a free soul, .. -

so says the lyrical hero, who finds himself only in the bosom of nature.

In 1820, Pushkin left for the Southern exile, where, far from the familiar world and close friends, he experienced a serious life crisis. At the same time, the poet discovers the work of Byron, which strikes him not only with the beauty of artistic images, but also with the extent to which romantic poetry is consonant with the experiences of Pushkin himself. A new stage begins in the poet's work - a romantic period, and the exotic nature of the Caucasus appears in all its glory in his lyrics. Images of turbulent streams, an indomitable ocean, sharp mountain ranges and a free wind reflected Pushkin's inner state, nature is the only thing with which he feels in harmony. For example, in the poem “The Prisoner”, the lyrical hero, being in prison, rushes out, to the free element:

There, where the mountain turns white behind the cloud,

There, where the sea edges turn blue,

There, where we walk only the wind ... yes, I! ..

And in the poem “The star of the day went out…”, the lyrical hero asks the gloomy ocean, on which the ship glides, to take it to new limits, entrusting itself to its whims.

The same motif of the indomitability of the free element is also present in the poem "To the Sea", which Pushkin began to write, already leaving the south. The poet regrets that he could not merge with the mighty nature, and saying goodbye, he swears allegiance to the sea:

Farewell, sea! I won't forget

Your solemn beauty

And for a long, long time I will hear

Your buzz in the evening hours.

After arriving in Mikhailovskoye in 1824, Pushkin immersed himself in village life: his day is filled with simple joys, communication with neighbors and admiring Russian nature. Here the poet is imbued with admiration for her simple beauty, which consists not in exotic, extraordinary landscapes, but in cute, familiar, almost everyday pictures of everyday village life. This is how he depicts Russian nature in the poem "October 19", 1825:

The forest drops its crimson dress,

The withered field is silvered by frost,

The day will pass, as if involuntarily,

And hide behind the edge of the surrounding mountains.

Pushkin finds beauty in the seemingly unpleasant fact of the withering of nature, he loves it the way it is.

At the same time, the poet seeks to remove the romantic halo from many events in nature. So, in the poem "Winter Evening" of 1825, his lyrical hero, despite the violence of the elements outside the window, continues to live his life, the storm does not seem to be an ominous or threatening danger:

A storm covers the sky with mist,

Whirlwinds of snow twisting;

Like a beast, she will howl

It will cry like a child

That on a dilapidated roof

Suddenly the straw will rustle,

Like a belated traveler

There will be a knock on our window.

Pushkin admires nature, observes it and looks for charm in every detail, even if it is unsightly, conveying the landscape as it is, without embellishment. Without a doubt, such a change in attitude towards nature also speaks of changes in the poet’s inner world: he found peace, found his place for that period, and nature became his support, her beauty inspires him and gives him the strength to live.

In subsequent years, from the second half of the 1920s until the end of the poet's life, Pushkin's landscape did not lose its realism, but acquired another role. During this period, the poet often correlates the world of nature with the world of people, and the landscape becomes a means of expressing the author's philosophy. So, in the poem “Do I wander along the noisy streets ...” of 1829, Pushkin’s lyrical hero compares the human age and the “natural” age:

I look at the solitary oak,

I think: the patriarch of the forests

Will survive my forgotten age,

How he survived the age of his fathers.

That's what he says, but it doesn't bother him. After all, this is the law of life: one leaves, another comes in his place (“I have time to smolder, you bloom”), and at the “coffin entrance”, as before, “young life will play / And indifferent nature / Shine with eternal beauty.

Of particular note is the poem "Autumn" of 1833, in which Pushkin speaks of his favorite season. "The sad time" he likes the state of beauty ready to fade away, like a consumptive maiden:

... condemned to death,

The poor thing bows without grumbling, without anger,

The smile on the lips of the faded is visible;

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The days of late autumn are usually scolded,

But she is dear to me, dear reader ...

The “farewell beauty” of nature turns out to be the heyday for the poet:

And every autumn I bloom again;

The Russian cold is good for my health;

I again feel love for the habits of being:

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Desires boil - I'm happy again, young,

I am full of life again...

But the main thing is the relationship of the autumn season with creative inspiration, which Pushkin speaks of at the end of the poem:

And I forget the world - and in sweet silence

I am sweetly lulled by my imagination,

And poetry awakens in me ...

Pushkin's perception of nature changed along with his spiritual world. For him, the search for his place, his faith, support is closely intertwined with artistic searches, and the harmonious, philosophical view of the world, to which Pushkin came to the end of his life, gave the reader the discovery of the beauty and sincerity of Russian nature, and the realistic landscape became a new stage in the development of Russian poetry. And it was Pushkin's traditions in the depiction of nature that many future poets and writers followed.

  • XX Congress of the CPSU. Democratization of the life of the country in the second half of the 50s. "Thaw".
  • Joint-stock company. Constituent documents and governing bodies of a joint-stock company. Subsidiaries and dependent companies.
  • AT occupies one of the most important places in the life of society economic area, that is, everything that is connected with the production, distribution, exchange and consumption of goods created by human labor.

    Under economy It is customary to understand the system of social production, the process of creating material goods necessary for human society for its normal existence and development, as well as the science that studies economic processes.

    The economy plays a huge role in the life of society. It provides people with the material conditions of existence - food, clothing, housing and other consumer goods. The economic sphere is the main sphere of society, it determines the course of all the processes taking place in it.

    The main factor of production (or main inputs) is:

    the land with all its riches;

    labor depends on the number of the population and its education and qualifications;

    capital (machines, machine tools, premises, etc.);

    Entrepreneurial ability.

    For centuries, the problem of how to satisfy the many needs of people has been solved by extensive development of the economy, that is, the involvement of new spaces and cheap natural resources in the economy.

    With the development of scientific and technological progress, it became clear that this approach to the use of resources has exhausted itself: humanity has felt their limitations. Since then, the economy has developed intense way, implying the rationality and efficiency of the use of resources. According to this approach, a person must process the available resources in such a way as to achieve maximum results at a minimum cost.

    The main questions of the economy - what, how and for whom to produce.

    Different economic systems solve them differently. Depending on this, they are divided into four main types: traditional, centralized (administrative-command), market and mixed.

    From the traditional economy manufacturing industry began. Now it has been preserved in a number of economically underdeveloped countries. It is based on natural form of economy. Signs of natural production are: direct relations in production, distribution, exchange and consumption; products are produced for domestic consumption; It is based on communal (public) and private ownership of the means of production. The traditional type of economy prevailed at the pre-industrial stage of the development of society.



    Centralized (or administrative-command) economy based on a unified plan. It dominated the territory of the Soviet Union, in the countries of Eastern Europe, and a number of Asian states. Currently preserved in North Korea and Cuba. Its main features are: state regulation of the national economy, which is based on state ownership of most economic resources; strong monopolization and bureaucratization of the economy; centralized economic planning of all economic activity.

    Under market refers to an economy based on commodity production. The most important mechanism for coordinating economic activity here is the market. For the existence of a market economy, private property is necessary (that is, the exclusive right to own, use and dispose of goods belonging to a person); competition; free, market-determined prices.



    The economic systems mentioned above are almost never found in their pure form. In each country, elements of various economic systems are combined in their own way. Thus, in developed countries there is a combination of market and centralized economic systems, but the former plays a dominant role, although the role of the state in organizing the economic life of society is significant. This combination is called mixed economy. The main goal of such a system is to use the strengths and overcome the shortcomings of a market and centralized economy. Sweden and Denmark are classic examples of mixed economies.

    In connection with the transition of a number of former socialist countries from a centrally controlled economy to a market economy, they formed a special type of economic system called transitional economy. Its main task is to build a market economic system in the future.

    2. Read an excerpt from the work of a contemporary sociologist. “Parents and children cannot and
    must be financially equal. Parents should have power over their children
    We are in the public interest. And yet their relationship must, in principle, be
    equality. In a democratic family, parental power is based on an unwritten agreement.
    Shenia". How do you understand the author’s words that the power of parents over children is responsible for everything
    common interests? Whose interests, besides the interests of children and parents, are implied here?
    What, in your opinion, could be the “unwritten agreement” mentioned by the author between
    parents and children?

    Any stable, steadily developing society is interested in a strong family. What is a “normal”, “healthy” family? This is a small group, united by blood relations, having family rules, which should serve as a direction for the development of each individual in the family. Such a family is characterized by warm relations between generations. The authority of parents, on the one hand, must be indisputable, there must be a distance between children and parents - for the simple reason that parents have more life experience, they are responsible and financially provide education and upbringing of children. Consent between parents, their authority creates a sense of security for children. But, on the other hand, a healthy family cannot be based on the suppression of children's independence. The true authority of parents should be clearly understood, not questioned and does not need constant demonstration. Children should feel free to express their opinion, defend their point of view, respecting the position of their parents.

    The absence of stable hierarchical relations in the family leads to the creation of the so-called "permissive" style of relationships. In such a family, behind the seeming permissiveness is a deep indifference to each other. Such a family is formal, does not provide support in difficult times and does not provide the right guidelines for development.

    As a result, the authoritarian style of relationships between parents and children also leads to alienation, suppresses independence and initiative, and ultimately can develop cruelty and aggression towards each other, or suppress a person, develop an inferiority complex.

    Thus, the most complete is a family with a democratic style of relationships, where respect for elders is adjacent to equality and cooperation, the family that serves as a safe haven in all life's problems and troubles.

    3. You turn 16 years old and during the summer holidays you decide to get a temporary job
    the one to earn money to buy a gift for parents. What documents do you need
    provide to the employer? What document should you sign? What points do you sign
    the document you are submitting should be given special attention?

    In this case, a 16-year-old minor must submit to the employer: a passport and a certificate of preliminary medical examination (examination).

    If yes, then a work book and an insurance certificate of state pension insurance are submitted.

    When applying for a job, a minor must sign an employment contract. Moreover, in this case - a fixed-term employment contract. In the employment contract, the employee should pay attention to the following points:

    · place of work;

    labor function (that is, a specific type of work received);

    date of commencement of work;

    the duration of the contract and the reasons for which a fixed-term employment contract was concluded;

    conditions of remuneration;

    working hours and rest periods, etc.

    It is also necessary to remember that, according to Article 92 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation, persons from 16 to 18 years old are set a reduced working time - no more than 35 hours per week.

    Stepan Arkadyevich studied well at school due to his good abilities, but was lazy and naughty and therefore came out of the latter, but, despite his always wild life, small ranks and not old years, he occupied an honorable and well-paid chief in one of the Moscow presences . He received this place through the husband of Anna's sister, Alexei Alexandrovich Karenin, who occupied one of the most important places in the ministry to which the presence belonged; but if Karenin had not appointed his brother-in-law to this position, then through a hundred other persons, brothers, sisters, relatives, cousins, uncles, aunts, Stiva Oblonsky would have received this position or another similar one, six thousand in salary, which he needed, for his affairs, despite the sufficient condition of his wife, were upset. Half of Moscow and Petersburg were relatives and friends of Stepan Arkadyevitch. He was born among those people who were and have become the mighty of this world. One third of the statesmen, the old men, were friends of his father and knew him in a shirt; another third were with him on "you", and the third third were good friends; consequently, the distributors of earthly goods in the form of places, rents, concessions, and the like, were all his friends and could not get around their own; and Oblonsky did not have to try very hard to get an advantageous position; it was only necessary not to refuse, not to envy, not to quarrel, not to be offended, which, due to his characteristic kindness, he never did. It would have seemed ridiculous to him if he had been told that he would not get a place with the salary that he needed, especially since he did not demand anything extraordinary; he wanted only what his peers received, and he could fill this kind of position no worse than anyone else. Stepan Arkadyevitch was not only loved by all who knew him for his kind, cheerful disposition and undoubted honesty, but in him, in his handsome, bright appearance, shining eyes, black eyebrows, hair, whiteness and ruddy face, there was something that physically acted friendly. and fun on the people who met him. “Aha! Steve! Oblonsky! Here he is!" they almost always spoke with a joyful smile when they met him. If it sometimes happened that after a conversation with him it turned out that nothing particularly joyful had happened, on the next day, on the third, again everyone was just as happy when they met him. Occupying for the third year the position of head of one of the offices in Moscow, Stepan Arkadyevitch acquired, in addition to love, the respect of his colleagues, subordinates, superiors, and everyone who had anything to do with him. The main qualities of Stepan Arkadyevitch, which earned him this general respect in his service, consisted, firstly, in his extreme indulgence towards people, based in him on the consciousness of his shortcomings; secondly, in perfect liberality, not the one he read about in the newspapers, but the one that was in his blood and with which he treated all people equally and equally, no matter what status and rank they were, and , thirdly, and most importantly, in complete indifference to the business in which he was engaged, as a result of which he never got carried away and did not make mistakes. Arriving at the place of his service, Stepan Arkadyevitch, accompanied by a respectful porter, went into his small office with a briefcase, put on his uniform, and entered the presence. The scribes and clerks all stood up, bowing merrily and respectfully. Stepan Arkadyevitch hastily, as always, went to his place, shook hands with the members, and sat down. He joked and talked, just how much it was decent, and began classes. No one, rather than Stepan Arkadyevitch, knew how to find that limit of freedom, simplicity and officiality, which is necessary for a pleasant business. The secretary, merrily and respectfully, like everyone else in Stepan Arkadyevitch's presence, came up with papers and spoke in that familiar liberal tone introduced by Stepan Arkadyevitch: - We did get information from the Penza provincial government. Here, wouldn't you like... Did you finally get it? said Stepan Arkadyevitch, laying down the paper with his finger. “Well, gentlemen...” And the presence began. “If they knew,” he thought, bowing his head with a significant air as he listened to the report, “what a guilty boy their chairman was half an hour ago!” And his eyes laughed as he read the report. Until two o'clock, classes were supposed to go without interruption, and at two o'clock - a break and breakfast. It was not yet two o'clock when the large glass doors of the hall of presence suddenly opened and someone entered. All the members from under the portrait and from behind the mirror, rejoicing at the entertainment, looked back at the door; but the watchman, who was standing at the door, immediately drove out the intruder and closed the glass door behind him. When the file had been read, Stepan Arkadyevitch stood up, stretched himself, and, paying tribute to the liberality of the time, took out a cigarette in the presence and went to his office. Two of his comrades, the old servant Nikitin and the chamber junker Grinevich, went out with him. "We'll have time to finish after breakfast," said Stepan Arkadyevitch. - How else can we do it! Nikitin said. “And this Fomin must be a decent rogue,” Grinevich said about one of the persons involved in the case they were investigating. Stepan Arkadyevitch frowned at Grinevich's words, giving him the feeling that it was indecent to form a judgment prematurely, and made no answer to him. — Who was it? he asked the watchman. “Someone, Your Excellency, got in without asking, as soon as I turned away. You were asked. I say, when the members come out, then...- Where is he? - Somebody went out into the hallway, otherwise he kept walking around here. This one,” said the watchman, pointing to a strongly built, broad-shouldered man with a curly beard, who, without taking off his ram’s hat, quickly and easily ran up the worn steps of the stone stairs. One of those descending with a briefcase, a thin official, paused, looked disapprovingly at the running man's feet, and then looked inquiringly at Oblonsky. Stepan Arkadyevitch was standing over the stairs. His good-naturedly beaming face shone even more brightly from behind the embroidered collar of his uniform when he recognized the man running in. - And there is! Levin, finally! he said with a friendly, mocking smile, looking round at Levin, who was coming up to him. - How did you not disdain to find me in this den? said Stepan Arkadyevitch, not content with shaking hands and kissing his friend. — How long ago? "I've just arrived, and I really wanted to see you," answered Levin, looking around shyly, and at the same time angrily and uneasily. "Well, let's go to the study," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, who knew the proud and embittered shyness of his friend; and, seizing him by the hand, he drew him along, as if leading him between dangers. Stepan Arkadyevich was on "you" with almost all of his acquaintances: with old men of sixty, with boys of twenty, with actors, with ministers, with merchants and with adjutant generals, so that very many of those who were with him on "you" were at the two extreme points of the social ladder and would be very surprised to learn that they have anything in common through Oblonsky. He was on "you" with everyone with whom he drank champagne, and he drank champagne with everyone, and therefore, in the presence of his subordinates, meeting with his shameful"you," as he jokingly called many of his friends, he, with his usual tact, knew how to reduce the unpleasantness of this impression for subordinates. Levin was not a shameful "you," but Oblonsky, with his tact, felt that Levin thought that he might not want to show his closeness to him in front of his subordinates, and therefore he hurried to take him to his office. Levin was almost the same age as Oblonsky, and with him on "you" not one champagne. Levin was his comrade and friend in his early youth. They loved each other, despite the difference in characters and tastes, as friends who met in their first youth love each other. But in spite of this, as often happens between people who have chosen different kinds of activity, each of them, although, reasoning, and justified the activity of the other, in his soul despised it. It seemed to everyone that the life that a friend leads is only a ghost. Oblonsky could not restrain a slight, mocking smile at the sight of Levin. More than once he had seen him come to Moscow from the village, where he was doing something, but Stepan Arkadyevitch could never quite understand what exactly, and he was not interested, Levin always came to Moscow agitated, hurried, a little embarrassed and irritated this constraint and for the most part with a completely new, unexpected outlook on things. Stepan Arkadyevitch laughed at this and loved it. In the same way, Levin in his heart despised both the urban lifestyle of his friend and his service, which he considered trifling, and laughed at it. But the difference was that Oblonsky, doing what everyone does, laughed self-confidently and good-naturedly, while Levin did not self-confidently and sometimes angrily. "We've been waiting for you for a long time," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, going into the study and letting go of Levin's hand, as if to show that the dangers had ended here. “Very, very good to see you,” he continued. - Well, what are you? How? When did you arrive? Levin was silent, glancing at the unfamiliar faces of Oblonsky's two comrades, and especially at the hand of the elegant Grinevich, with such thin white fingers, such long yellow nails that curved at the end, and such huge shiny cufflinks on his shirt, that these hands evidently absorbed everything. his attention and did not give him freedom of thought. Oblonsky noticed this at once and smiled. “Oh yes, let me introduce you,” he said. - My comrades: Filipp Ivanovich Nikitin, Mikhail Stanislavich Grinevich, - and turning to Levin: - Zemstvo activist, new Zemstvo man, gymnast, lifting five pounds with one hand, cattle breeder and hunter and my friend, Konstantin Dmitrich Levin, brother of Sergei Ivanovich Koznyshev. “Very nice,” said the old man. "I have the honor to know your brother, Sergei Ivanovich," said Grinevich, offering his thin hand with long nails. Levin frowned, shook hands coldly, and at once turned to Oblonsky. Although he had great respect for his one-womb brother, the writer, known throughout Russia, he could not stand it when they addressed him not as Konstantin Levin, but as the brother of the famous Koznyshev. — No, I am no longer a zemstvo activist. I've dealt with everyone and don't go to meetings any more,' he said, turning to Oblonsky. - Soon! Oblonsky said with a smile. - But how? from what? - Long story. I'll tell you someday,' said Levin, but immediately began to tell. “Well, to put it briefly, I am convinced that there is not and cannot be any zemstvo activity,” he began, as if someone had just offended him, “on the one hand, they are a toy, they are playing for parliament, and I am neither young enough nor old enough to play with toys; and on the other hand (he hinted) it is a means for the county coterie to make money. Before guardianships, courts, and now Zemstvos ... not in the form of bribes, but in the form of undeserved salaries, ”he said so ardently, as if someone from those present were challenging his opinion. - Ege-re! Yes, I see you are again in a new phase, in a conservative one,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch. — But, however, after about this. - Yes, after. But I needed to see you,” said Levin, peering with hatred into Grinevich's hand. Stepan Arkadyevitch smiled slightly. - How did you say that you would never wear a European dress again? he said, looking at his new dress, obviously from a French tailor. - So! I see: a new phase. Levin suddenly blushed, but not in the way grown-up people blush—slightly, without noticing it themselves, but in the way that boys blush—feeling that they are ridiculous in their shyness, and consequently ashamed and blushing even more, almost to the point of tears. And it was so strange to see this intelligent, courageous face in such a childlike state that Oblonsky stopped looking at it. Yes, where will we see you? After all, I really, really need to talk to you,” said Levin. Oblonsky seemed to be thinking. - Here's what: we'll go to Gurin's for breakfast and talk there. I'm free until three. "No," answered Levin after a moment's thought, "I still have to go." “Well, okay, let’s have lunch together.” - Lunch? Yes, there’s nothing special for me, just say two words, ask, and then we’ll talk. - So now say two words, and talk at dinner. “Those are the two words,” said Levin, “however, nothing special. His face suddenly took on an evil expression, which came from an effort to overcome his shyness. — What are the Shcherbatskys doing? Is everything the same? - he said. Stepan Arkadyevitch, who had known for a long time that Levin was in love with his sister-in-law Kitty, smiled slightly perceptibly, and his eyes shone merrily. - You said two words, and I can’t answer in two words, because ... Excuse me for a minute ... The secretary entered with familiar reverence and some, common to all secretaries, a modest consciousness of his superiority over the boss in knowledge of affairs, went up to Oblonsky with papers and began, under the guise of a question, to explain some difficulty. Stepan Arkadyevitch, without listening to the end, laid his hand affectionately on the secretary's sleeve. “No, you should do as I said,” he said, softening the remark with a smile, and briefly explaining to him how he understands the matter, pushed the papers aside and said: “Do it, please.” Please, so, Zakhar Nikitich. The embarrassed secretary left. Levin, during the conference with the secretary, having completely recovered from his embarrassment, stood with both hands leaning on a chair, and there was mocking attention on his face. “I don’t understand, I don’t understand,” he said. - What you do not understand? said Oblonsky, smiling just as cheerfully and taking out a cigarette. He expected some strange trick from Levin. "I don't understand what you're doing," said Levin, shrugging his shoulders. How can you seriously do this?- From what? Yes, because there is nothing to do. “You think so, but we're overwhelmed with business. - Paper. Well, yes, you have a gift for that,” added Levin. So you think that I have a lack of something? "Perhaps, yes," said Levin. “But all the same, I admire your greatness and am proud that I have a friend such a great person. However, you did not answer my question,” he added, looking directly into Oblonsky’s eyes with a desperate effort. - Well, well, well. Wait a little longer and you will come to this. Well, how do you have three thousand acres in the Karazin district, and such muscles, and freshness, like a twelve-year-old girl, and you will come to us too. Yes, so about what you asked: there is no change, but it's a pity that you haven't been for so long. - And what? Levin asked fearfully. "Nothing," answered Oblonsky. - We will talk. Why, exactly, did you come? "Ah, we'll talk about that later, too," said Levin, blushing again to the ears. - OK then. I understand,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch. “You see, I would invite her to my place, but my wife is not quite well. Here's the thing: if you want to see them, they're probably in the Zoological Garden today from four to five. Kitty is skating. You go there, and I'll drop by, and have lunch somewhere together. - Wonderful. Well, goodbye. - Look, you, I know you, you will forget or you will suddenly leave for the village! shouted Stepan Arkadyevitch, laughing.- No, that's right. And, remembering that he had forgotten to bow to Oblonsky's comrades only when he was already at the door, Levin left the office. "He must be a very energetic gentleman," Grinevich said when Levin left. "Yes, father," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, shaking his head, "what a lucky man!" Three thousand acres in the Karazin district, everything is ahead, and how much freshness! Not like our brother. "Why are you complaining, Stepan Arkadyevitch?" "Yes, it's bad, bad," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, sighing heavily.