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I was born in a family of schoolteachers on June 8, 1953, in a small town near the border between Soviet and Chinese empires. My grandparents were from Samara and Kiev; during the communist revolution they were deprived property and sent into Siberia, later in Kazakhstan, for "re-education" in the spirit of Marxism-Leninism. When I was eight years old, my family was allowed to move into the main city of the province (Alma-Ata), where I finished a polytechnic school and agricultural institute, specializing in economics and cybernetics. Two years I worked in the Alma-Ata economic institute and, in 1978, I moved into Odessa, where I have studied the computer science for a year. Then I moved into Moscow, where I continued my education and did my post-graduate work for four more years in the area of the long-run economic prognosis. Then I worked as a junior scientist in the Moscow institute of the agricultural economics.

In 1980, I was married, and in 1984, we had a son Ivan (John in English), to whom my book is dedicated. In 1985, I became politically active by writing the dissented articles and participating in the anti communist gatherings. In 1986, KGB agents kidnapped me from a Moscow street and put me in a prison without any judicial formalities. Thanks to the President Reagan, I was released from the prison in 1988. 'Seeing light at the end of the tunnel,' gave me some energy and force to organize and publish the philosophic and political journal "Monitor," thus modestly contributing in the fall of the Soviet Empire. For my dissenting activity I was deprived a soviet citizenship in 1990. The American government gave me political asylum. From 1992 to 1996, I have studied English and Law in the University of New York (CUNY). The rest you can find in my book, which is for those who were stung to the bones by such questions of life and death as: 'Why I am here, on this planet, and what for?'

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