About the book: 2017 / In his new book, Stanislav Belkovsky, one of the most popular Russian political scientists and publicists, talks about a new cycle of Russian history, which begins in 2017. At this time, 32 years of the previous cycle are ending, counting from 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev, the herald of perestroika, which radically changed not only Russia, but the whole world, came to power in the USSR. And 32 years before that, in 1953, Stalin died, which immediately led to a deep liberalization of the Soviet regime. What will the new cycle, which began in 2017, be like for Russia? This cycle, as Belkovsky writes, will be associated with a series of random, important events that cannot be predicted by ordinary means - “black swans”, as defined by the British thinker David Hume. The author shows what this can be, and how this series of “black swans” can lead us into “something unprecedented”».