About the book: year / In its present form, the sketch has internal completeness and can be considered as an independent and holistic work. Each point here is not an unambiguous statement, as is customary in programs, but a question or set of questions. The author’s goal is to pose the problem of a social ideal and attract the attention of “thinking people” to its development. Dobrolyubov breaks down the problem into its components and presents possible points of view on each of its facets, without revealing his sympathy for any of them. The breadth of coverage of social phenomena in the sketch indicates the systematicity of the critic’s views on society, the desire for a global change in social relations.