Post-Soviet Russia in publicism of Valentine Rasputin

This article based on the material of publicism (political essays, speeches and interviews) consideres V. Rasputin's interpretations and estimations of sociohistorical processes in Postsoviet Russia. Studying the research of crisis processes of the end 1980 - the beginnings of 2000, the writer offers the system of their determinants. Character of interpretation is determined by the ethics which becomes rigidly authoritative. In a direct word of publicistic statements is clearly shown the monologicality of writer's consciousness.