In the late Soviet years, an anecdote was popular that «The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food» was classified as prohibited literature.
It is sad, of course, that today it comes to mind in connection with the publication of the book Democracy, but what can you do. But it’s nice that it was with this book that the European University in St. Petersburg decided to open its new series «The ABC of Concepts». Convenient pocket format, «semi-hard» cover and excellent printing performance — a good application for a library of quality reference books. Moreover, the content also matches the execution. Political scientist Artemy Magun lucidly and without emotion talks about how democracy was born, why today this word suddenly turned out to be almost abusive, what are the reasons for the crisis of modern democracy, why this crisis was partly facilitated by the collapse of the main antagonist of democratic ideas — communism … Well, and about many others important and useful things that are definitely worth knowing about democracy. At least in theory.
European University at St. Petersburg, 154 p.