The name of the brilliant journalist Leonid Radzikhovsky is known to many. He became widely known in the nineties, but even today he remains aware of political events and is tirelessly in service. Few people know that Leonid Aleksandrovich is a candidate of psychological sciences who has written a number of scientific papers.

Leonid Radzikhovsky: biography

Leonid Radzikhovsky's hometown is Moscow, and his date of birth is November 1, 1953. Parents are microbiologists. According to him, he studied at a regular school, then moved to the second physics and mathematics school, which was known in those years for the fact that classes in mathematics and physics were taught by leading scientists. Lectures and concerts were held regularly, and a theater functioned. The school was a community of extraordinary people and students with free views on the surrounding reality.

After school, his father, at that time a professor at the Faculty of Biology, convincingly asked his son to enter his university. But Leonid Aleksandrovich did not want to do something he didn’t like. He was always interested in journalism and history. At that time, this required a minimum of joining the party and telling continuous lies from the rostrum. For Radzikhovsky, given his beliefs and views, this was unacceptable. And he, without any desire, enters the Faculty of Psychology, the founder of which was one of his closest relatives.

The path to journalism

Graduated from Moscow State University in 1975. Worked at the Institute of Psychology. Leonid Aleksandrovich participated in the preparation for publication of the multi-volume work of the Soviet psychologist Vygotsky. In addition, Leonid Radzikhovsky is a candidate of psychological sciences and the author of a number of works on psychology. But, of course, he found himself in journalism. Since the late eighties, he has been simultaneously published in the Teacher's Newspaper, where he wrote several articles on psychology.

The editor of the newspaper introduced him to a representative of the most famous newspaper at that time, Moscow News. Since then, the journalist began to “move in this environment.” New democratic publications appeared almost every day, Leonid Radzikhovsky wrote with passion, and easily and very quickly began to publish in a number of other media. For example, in such newspapers as Izvestia, Moscow News, Evening Moscow, Nezavisimaya Gazeta and Versii.

For some time he wrote articles under the pseudonym Boris Suvarin. According to Radzikhovsky, he liked some of the author’s articles. I liked his definition of Soviet power; while reading it, Leonid Aleksandrovich found many thoughts that were in tune with himself. The first thing he paid attention to was Souvarine’s words about the main distinguishing feature of the country of the Soviets - “total integral lie.” After that, I got acquainted with his works, which I liked in style. And several times, as Leonid Radzikhovsky says, he allowed himself to “appropriate his name.”

Political commentator

After the August putsch, the opportunity to work on television became available. In 1992, he was invited to Channel One as a political observer. He quickly realized that TV was not for him, since the degree of propaganda of violence and chauvinism had increased significantly. He didn’t want to blatantly lie to the audience, and he couldn’t insult other people. Therefore, I considered it best to leave television at that time. Since then, he was invited to TV several times in different capacities, but Leonid Aleksandrovich refused.

Speechwriting

In 1995, Leonid Radzikhovsky worked as a political observer on the Ekho Moskvy radio. In the same year he became a deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation. And as one of the well-known specialists in creative development, he takes part in election campaigns. In the mid-nineties, Radzikhovsky was a sought-after political scientist and speechwriter.

He tried not to sign commissioned materials with his own name, as he also avoided texts that contradicted his views and beliefs. At that time, an acquaintance close to Yegor Gaidar suggested that he work for Alexander Lebed. It was the 1996 presidential election campaign. A well-known journalist wrote him a program “Truth and Order”, which did not contradict the views of Radzikhovsky himself.

Radzikhovsky today

He regularly appears on the “Personal Opinion” program. Since 2000, Radzikhovsky, as a free-lance journalist, has published articles in a number of media outlets, both Russian and foreign. He is a columnist for the Russian newspapers Kuranty, Segodnya, Sobesednik, Yevreiskoe Slovo and Democratic Russia. He regularly publishes in foreign publications - the Polish “Gazeta Wyborcza”, the American “New Russian Word”.

He writes columns in the Daily Journal, Lechaim and XX Century and the World magazines, where he expresses his own authoritative opinion about everything. Leonid Radzikhovsky is often invited as a guest on Radio Liberty. On radio “Echo of Moscow” he regularly takes part in programs and maintains his own blog. The journalist has written more than two thousand articles, which are mainly political in nature or devoted to the Jewish issue. In 2005 - laureate of the FEOR "Person of the Year" award.

Interesting about the main thing. He considers himself a believer, but does not belong to any denomination. In his views he is a skeptical liberal. He has a personal life, but keeps it secret. He considers his main achievement to be that he managed to raise a good son. My favorite pastime is writing. Three favorite writers are Gogol, Chekhov and Dostoevsky. Favorite city - Paris.

June 22 is the most terrible day in the history of Russia. It sounds corny, but if you think about it for a second, it’s not so corny at all. There have never been such invasions or such defeats before.

It happened that Moscow was captured (Poles, Napoleon), and the country was conquered (Tatars). But, as you know, during the time of the Tatars there was no single state and no single defeat. Napoleon walked with the “small intestine”: there was no total occupation of the country. The Poles acted not as foreign occupiers themselves, but under the cover of False Dmitry.

And no one has ever set SUCH goals for themselves. The goals of the Germans regarding Russia and Russians are known. The goals were determined firmly by ideology. RACIAL goals. Russians are untermensches. Elimination of their state, written language (only signs and orders to read), culture, slave labor. "Russian Africa". With the difference that when the White Gentlemen landed on the Ivory Coast, there really was no developed culture or state, but there were semi-wild tribes. And the Russians had to be FORCED TO BE TRANSFORMED into a semi-wild tribe.

“You have to fight with a tank, but you can scurry around with a truck. The Wehrmacht held on to tanks, the Red Army in 1941 to trucks..."

When they say (and eyewitnesses and their children tell this very often) that the Germans treated our people “well” (they gave us chocolate), this is, of course, true. This only means that the “good German” was caught. Such a one will stroke a cat and stroke an untermensch. But this does not cancel the firm goals of the German state - to grind the Russians into sand, into slave dung for the Reich. All. There were no other goals.

So Russia was not on the verge of military defeat, not on the verge of enslavement, but on the verge of complete DESTRUCTION, ANNIHILATION as a state, as a culture, as a nation. No one else has ever set such goals in relation to Russia.

(It’s even more cute to look at the “purely Russian” skinheads, stretching out their arms in the Nazi salute, celebrating “Fuhrer’s Day” and regretting that he lost, i.e., he did not send all the Jews to gas ovens).

But these German goals, in general, are known to everyone except the shaved bastards. But the scale of the defeat, the degree to which these goals are close to fulfillment, are still not fully understood.

Official historians (primarily military ones) are declassifying the truth drop by drop. And maybe they are doing the right thing. More precisely, they did it right. Now, 65 years later, this truth can still be told.

But before, it really wasn’t possible. Because you can’t HUMILIATE A NATION like that. To humiliate is a terrible TRUTH. Moreover, one cannot humiliate those who really fought heroically. And to tell all this in full would simply mean knocking the war veterans off their feet. I am still writing this in the hope that veterans will not read it. Not because it’s a lie, but because, three times alas, it’s the TRUTH.

However, this truth was not hidden out of respect for the heroes of the war. When our state respected them (and any other of its subjects!). The state hid this truth only out of fear, out of the instinct of self-preservation. Because what hurts a veteran is a death sentence for the Soviet state.

Of course, the facts discussed below can be disputed. They were dug up by some amateur historian from Samara, some unknown to me, Mark Solonin. The book is called “June 22”.

Self-taught people who discover the perpetual motion machine, the elixir of youth, who find the library of Ivan the Terrible and the Amber Room, who expose worldwide conspiracies, etc. are well known. Maximum conceit, hysterical style, references to unknown “sources”, etc. In general, “I recognize a sweetheart by his gait.”

So - this is NOT THAT case.
I was often irritated by the style of this Solonin, overly glib, fictionalized (or, conversely, burying himself in the description of “transmissions”, internal combustion engines, etc., details incomprehensible to me). But the feeling of great and conscientious work remained. And most importantly, in fact, his book does not contain anything completely new. This is not Suvorov - there is no discovery of Stalin’s plan for the conquest of Europe, etc. No, Solonin writes only about facts, very often well known. It’s just that when they are collected “to the heap”, the hair still stands on end. I have. And you – judge for yourself.

How is June 22nd represented in cinema?
Our fighter with a rifle and a Molotov cocktail throws himself under the tracks of a German tank and the steel monster bursts into flames. This is how we perceive: they have the mechanical power of formidable technology, we have the power of the immortal spirit.

The most terrible conclusion of this same Solonin (damn him, with his conclusions!): everything was completely wrong. More precisely - almost the OPPOSITE...

You need to make a reservation in advance. History is such an exact science that no two historians will agree on a single number (well, except for historical dates, probably). Therefore, it is clear that any of the many figures given below is quite possible for refutation and dispute. I myself do not at all consider Solonin to be some kind of new Herodotus. Errors in individual figures are quite possible. But, I think, the errors are percentages, but not many times. This means that the general meaning is preserved.

By June 22, there were 13,000 tanks in the Soviet Army, 3,300 in the Wehrmacht. At the same time, there were 3,000 of the newest T-34 and KV tanks, which had no analogues and were superior to the best German ones in all respects. Almost as many as ALL German ones.

In the battles, “in 2 weeks, the Southwestern Front lost 4,000 tanks” - and the Kleist tank group opposing it lost 186 tanks in two and a half months of war (by September 4)!

Typical figures: “By July 8, out of 211 tanks, 2 T-34 tanks and 12 BT remained in service - and this despite the fact that in the only battle on June 28, the division lost no more than 20 tanks.”

It's no less interesting with rifles. Solonin calculated that in 1944, in the Red Army, “one million soldiers “lost” 36,000 small arms per month, therefore, throughout the army for 6 months of 1941, “normal” losses should not have exceeded 650-700,000 units. But in reality, the Red Army “lost” 6,300,000 small arms during this period. Hence the natural question: were the weapons lost in battle or abandoned by the Red Army soldiers and commanders who fled in all directions?”

But “the total number of lost and broken down trucks did not exceed 10% of the total.” What a miracle of technology! The wretched lorry (there were no Studebakers yet) breaks down on the collective farm 5 times a day - and here it is on you! More reliable than a tank - it can pass through swamps and cannot be attacked from the air. And there is always fuel for the car, but for tanks it is always “ran out.”

What the heck?
“The answer is obvious, although very indecent: for a demoralized, panic-stricken crowd, tanks and guns, machine guns and mortars are a BURDEN. Not only do tanks crawl slowly, but by the very fact of their presence they force you to fight.” Yes, you have to fight with a tank, but you can scurry around with a truck. The Wehrmacht held on to tanks, the Red Army in 1941 – to trucks...

But the worst thing is when you move from iron (by the way, we did not have superiority over the Germans in all types of weapons. They obviously had an advantage in communications - and this was one of the main Achilles heels of our army) to people. That's the most important thing - human losses.
The Red Army lost at least 8,500,000 people in 1941.
Of these: died on the battlefield, died in hospitals from wounds - 567,000 (less than 7% of total losses).
Another 235,000 died from unnamed “incidents” (?) and died from disease.
Injured and sick – 1,314,000.
Total: killed and wounded - 2,100,000 people (25% losses).
Prisoners - 3,800,000 (including 63 generals). About 45% of all losses! Including 40,000 officially registered defectors.

“Dozens of pilots flew to the Germans in their combat aircraft. Later, a “Russian” air unit of the Luftwaffe was formed from them under the command of Colonel Maltsev.” (So ​​maybe skinheads with a Nazi salute are not such a “mistake of nature”? Maybe these are their grandchildren and great-grandchildren?) For comparison: 29 Germans defected to our side in 1941-44. Not 29,000, but exactly 29 Human! This, by the way, despite the fact that there were thousands, tens of thousands of former German communists in the Wehrmacht...

Another about 1,000,000 - 1,500,000 are deserters. After the Decree on Mobilization (June 22), according to official data, 5,631,000 people did not show up at recruiting stations in Ukraine and Belarus! And this cannot be attributed to the fact that the Germans captured the territory before people had time to come to the recruiting station: after all, Belarus and Ukraine were occupied only by the end of July and September 1941, respectively. “On October 23, 1941, only 43% of conscripts arrived in the Kharkov Military District.” And of those conscripted at the Stalinist military registration and enlistment office in the Stalin region (now Donetsk), 35% of those conscripted escaped (according to the military commissar’s certificate)!

Total: prisoners plus deserters - 56-62% of all losses.

Finally, according to Solonin, about 1,000,000 are “wounded, abandoned during the stampede, and killed, unaccounted for in reports from the front.”

However, what about Solonin... The degree of general panic and chaos can be easily assessed by a well-known fact: the Supreme Commander-in-Chief himself “darted” from the Kremlin to the Near Dacha, locked himself in, hid, did not receive anyone (according to the “log of visits”) for two whole days. This is at such and such a moment! And I only forced myself out of my “dear brothers and sisters” with my teeth chattering on the glass in fear only on July 3...

What then can you expect from an 18-year-old conscript in the Kharkov region?..
Yes, “well, there was ORDER under Stalin.” That's for sure.

Solonin gives numerous examples (including from memoirs published in the USSR) of how “the fish rotted from the head”: the secretaries of regional committees and the heads of regional departments of the NKVD were the first to flee, loading into their cars not the wounded, but junk, leaving their regions to the mercy of fate ... And they did it, as a rule, with complete impunity! Yes, these are not Japanese Trotskyist-Menshevik spies...

“Marshal Kulik ordered everyone to take off their insignia, throw away their documents, then change into peasant clothes, and he changed clothes himself. He offered to give up the weapons, and for me personally, orders and documents. However, except for his adjutant, no one threw away documents or weapons.” They didn’t lay a finger on Kulik, they kept the rank of marshal, they gave him a new Star of Hero - and he continued to kill hundreds of thousands of soldiers, drink, and be selfish at the front, until, having failed several front-line operations, he was demoted, in 1942, to major general, and After the war, he was shot - but not for selfishness and incompetent criminal command, but... on a false accusation of “conspiracy against Stalin.” Now he has been “posthumously rehabilitated”, “Marshal” and “Hero” have been returned again...

We could go on and on about terrible facts, including about our own who fought on the side of the Germans. After all, the famous “Vlasovites” are only an insignificant part. In reality, more than a million of “ours” fought in auxiliary and police German units...

A terrible picture. Chaos and MASSIVE REluctance to fight “for the Motherland, for Stalin.” This has never happened in the Russian army. The Tsarist army reached such disintegration only in 1917...

And the Germans figured it out!
This (and not a purely military victory) was what Hitler and his “consultants on the Russian colossus with feet of clay” were counting on: a Russian soldier (not to mention a “non-Russian” from Ukraine, the Caucasus or Central Asia) would not fight for Soviet power wants and won't. Hitler dreamed of repeating Lenin's experience - turning a foreign war in Russia into a civil war. There was no Parvus, there was no Lenin, there were no Bolsheviks, there was no opposition, but the calculation was for something else.

Russia in 1941 was still a peasant country. What did the peasant see from the Soviet regime? VKP(b) – Second Serfdom (Bolsheviks). Russian peasants will not fight for collective farms. The Germans will only knock down the castle from this system with their fist - and the people will scatter in all directions on their own!

The calculation was not entirely justified. But it didn’t completely fail! German leaflets “Beat the Jew-political instructor, the face is asking for a brick!”, “On the left is a hammer, on the right is a sickle. This is your Soviet coat of arms. If you want to reap, but if you want to forge, you will still get it -...!” fit well into the soul of a simple soldier. Because he - through life - saw that there was some kind of truth behind this. He lived lousy behind the “Kids-political instructors” (and who they were according to “ethnic characteristics” did not bother him too much - “Jews” is one word!) and did not receive much for workdays from his hammer and sickle...

But the German “worker in a soldier’s uniform” was left stony-indifferent by tens of millions of leaflets written in impeccable German, denouncing “Hitler and his bloody pack.” Why? Was Goebbels's propaganda more talented? Maybe... But the main thing is that he, like the Russian soldier, judged “by life.” And “in life” the German received for his “hammer and sickle” from his “national political instructors” was not at all what the Russian received. The robbery of all of Europe (and before that of the Jews of Germany) went not only to the Reich, but also to the pocket and belly of every individual German! Throughout the war (until 1945), apart from the bombings, the standard of living in Germany did NOT FALL. I don’t have numbers, but from numerous conversations with Germans I know that the standard of living fell sharply after Hitler’s defeat! Therefore, before the start of the “economic miracle” in the 1950s, despite all the horrors of war... Hitler was popular among the Germans! But when they began to live decently, his popularity went down sharply. This is, alas, how people are made – most are influenced not by moral reasoning, but by impulses from the stomach...

And when here, under Soviet power, dissidents said: “This is how the WINNERS live, and this is how the VICTORS live,” it was an empty phrase. There has never been such a gap in living standards as DURING THE WAR. That is why (and not just out of revenge for their dead relatives) our soldiers were stunned and furious when they entered German houses in 1945 - THEY HAVE NEVER SEEN THIS LIKE. Hitler robbed all of Europe - and shared it with his “supermans”. But the “power of the working people” has never been divided...

Why did the Germans still lose, and we won?
I don't know of any "original" reasons. In my opinion, everything has been said on this topic a long time ago.

Here is the “stupid atrocity” of the Germans, who did not dissolve the collective farms and treated the Russians, indeed, like animals. As required by their racial theory - everything according to science! It was not the articles of Ehrenburg and Sholokhov, but this TRUTH, which the soldier’s telegraph carried across the front line, that aroused hatred of the enemy. And when the Russian soldier starts to fight for real, NOBODY will stop him. AND NOTHING. This is not boastful propaganda. This is the experience of the WHOLE HISTORY OF RUSSIA. The Russian bear is notoriously difficult to tease SERIOUSLY. Well, if he teased - ALL. Alles kaput.

Here and gradually improved command and control of troops.
Here is the skill of commanders born of war, starting with the great and merciless Zhukov.

And allies. And the real “leading and directing” role of the party, which was much better suited to leadership in wartime than in peacetime. We also include here the atrocities of the “armed detachment of the party” - the NKVD, with its barrage battalions, the Gulag. And the weather. And distances. And roads. And everything, everything, everything that all, everything, all books about the war are written about.

Yes, all this was achieved at incredible costs, about which almost everything has been said. This system couldn’t do it any other way... didn’t understand, and didn’t want to. The system is known: “if it doesn’t help in a fight, it will win the war.”

Yes, a lot of truth has been said about the war - and the closer to the end of the war, the more. But we still don’t know everything about the offensive, shameful, terrible truth of June 22.

I repeat once again - for decades this “white lie” was justified. This was not only a lie to save Soviet power. This lie also preserved the national pride of the soldiers - yes, they saw a lot with their own eyes, but the overall scale of the defeat... and, frankly speaking... betrayal... they, fortunately, did not imagine.

But now this truth must be slowly revealed.
And here’s why you need to know this truth.
To cure society of the “June 22 syndrome.”
Because if a NORMAL person really represents EVERYTHING - the degree of madness of the German “racial idea”, and the scale of victims, and the “negative price” of human life, and everything else, then this should cause him not just horror and not a convulsive clenching of his fists and “defense consciousness.” For a sober-minded person, a comparison of the incredible things that happened with today should, it seems to me, evoke a completely different thought.

THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN - NEVER.
Not because “I don’t want it that way,” “I don’t like it that way,” but for completely rational and dry reasons. It’s just that what happened then has NOTHING to compare with today.

There is no analogue of Nazism on Earth now. It’s not even funny to mention about Europe (NATO!). But even the most rabid Islamists are also far from being the same. THIS doesn't happen twice.

INCOMPATIBLE, well, simply - INCOMPATIBLE - the price of human life. That war (like that era as a whole) was the highest point in the history of human madness. And during that war, something changed in people’s minds. As the author of that war put it, “the fist of fate opened his eyes.” Yes, SUCH AN IMPACT still opened the gas for Humanity. That was the LAST war. In Europe - no doubt. But throughout the world there have not been such wars for 60 years - and there is every reason to think that there will not be any.

And therefore, the “possible attack” syndrome, the June 22 syndrome, which propaganda has fed us with for decades (and even now it is being revived!) is simply a “deception of the working people.” Of course, today the strength of this syndrome is far from what it was back in the 1980s (not to mention earlier). But for the final psychological recovery of our society, it seems to me that we need to know the truth about June 22. And a sober perception of this truth is precisely what can cure the 1941 syndrome. Find out, feel the whole truth about that panic - and this is how you will recover from psychological panic today. And this would greatly change our social consciousness as a whole...

Radzikhovsky, Leonid Alexandrovich
Date of birth: November 1, 1953
Place of birth: Moscow
Citizenship: Russia
Genre: journalism

Leonid Aleksandrovich Radzikhovsky(November 1, 1953, Moscow) - Russian publicist and psychologist. Candidate of Psychological Sciences. Member of the Moscow Writers Union. Winner of the Golden Pen of Russia award (1993). He writes columns in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the online publication Current Comments, and is a regular participant in broadcasts of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. In some publications he used the pseudonym “Boris Suvarin”.

Parents are microbiologists. After graduating from the Moscow “Second School”, he entered the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1975. Then he worked at the Research Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR (now the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Education). Candidate of Psychological Sciences (1979), published several dozen works on the history of psychology. Participated in the preparation for publication of a multi-volume collection of works by L. S. Vygotsky. Since the late 1980s, in parallel with scientific work, he began to publish articles, first in the Teacher's Newspaper, then in the newspaper and magazine Stolitsa, and other media.

In 1992-1993, he was a political observer for the Ostankino TV channel. In 1995 - political commentator for the Ekho Moskvy radio station. On April 5, 1995 he became a deputy of the State Duma of the 1st convocation, replacing Kirill Ignatiev. He was a member of the parliamentary faction “Russia’s Choice”. From December to 1997 - political commentator for Ogonyok magazine.
In 1996 - speechwriter for Russian presidential candidate Alexander Lebed. In 1997 - political columnist for the Segodnya newspaper.

One of the most famous Russian specialists in creative developments in election campaigns. Participated in campaigns for elections to the State Duma in 1993 (DVR), 1995 (movement “Our Home is Russia”, NDR), 1999 (NDR), 2003 (Union of Right Forces, People's Party), President RF 1996 (candidate A. Lebed), regional election campaigns. Author of the now classic slogan “There is such a candidate, and you know him.”

Since 2000, he has been working as a freelance journalist, collaborating with a number of media outlets. Columnist of the newspapers Segodnya, Kuranty, Democratic Russia, Sobesednik, Gazeta Wyborcza (Poland), New Russian Word (USA), Jewish Word (Moscow), magazines Ogonyok and Results." Published in “Izvestia”, “Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, “Moscow News”, “Soviet Culture”, “Evening Moscow”, the magazine “XX Century and the World”, “Lekhaim”, “Daily Magazine”, the newspaper “Versiia”. He regularly appears on the radio stations Ekho Moskvy and Radio Liberty.

Winner of the “Person of the Year” award from the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (2005).
He maintains a blog on the Echo of Moscow website.

Psychology issues
Nikolskaya A. A., Radzikhovsky L. A.: Development of developmental and educational psychology in the USSR over 70 years of Soviet power 87’1 p.5
Radzikhovsky L. A.: Cultivating a sense of social responsibility in adolescents 87’1 p.182
Radzikhovsky L. A.: On practical activities in the field of psychology 87’3 p.122
Radzikhovsky L. A.: Discussion problems of Marxist theory in Soviet psychological science 88’1 p.124
Ravich-Shcherbo I.V., Radzikhovsky L.A., Rozin M.V.: System-activity approach in personality psychology 88’1 p.177
Radzikhovsky L. A.: Study of the psychological characteristics of informal youth associations 88’4 p.182
Radzikhovsky L. A.: Freud's theory: change of attitude 88’6 p.100
Orlov A. B., Radzikhovsky L. A.: Strange motives, or tribute to the past 89’2 p.164
Radzikhovsky L. A.: Logical analysis and the problem of understanding in psychology 89’5 p.99

Leonid Aleksandrovich Radzikhovsky(November 1, Moscow) - Soviet and Russian publicist and psychologist. Candidate of Psychological Sciences. Member of the Moscow Writers' Union. Laureate of the Russian Union of Journalists award (). He conducts columns in the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, the online publication Current Comments, and is a regular participant in the broadcasts of the Ekho Moskvy radio station. In some publications he used the pseudonym “Boris Suvarin”.

Biography

Parents are microbiologists. After graduating from the Moscow “Second School” he entered the Faculty of Psychology of Moscow State University, which he graduated in 1975. Then he worked at the Research Institute of General and Pedagogical Psychology of the Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of the USSR (now the Institute of Psychology of the Russian Academy of Education). Candidate of Psychological Sciences (), published several dozen works on the history of psychology. Participated in the preparation for publication of a multi-volume collection of works by L. S. Vygotsky. Since the late 1980s, in parallel with his scientific work, he began to publish articles, first in the Teacher’s Newspaper, then in the newspaper and magazine Stolitsa, and other media.

In 1992-1993 - political commentator for Channel 1 Ostankino. B is a political observer for the radio station “Echo of Moscow”. On April 5, 1995 he became a deputy of the State Duma of the 1st convocation, replacing Kirill Ignatiev. He was a member of the parliamentary faction "Russia's Choice". From December to 1997 - political columnist for Ogonyok magazine.

One of the most famous Russian specialists in creative developments in election campaigns. Participated in campaigns for elections to the State Duma in 1993 (DVR), 1995 (movement “Our Home is Russia”, NDR), 1999 (NDR), 2003 (Union of Right Forces, People's Party), President RF 1996 (candidate A. Lebed), regional election campaigns. Author of the now classic slogan “There is such a candidate, and you know him.”

Winner of the “Person of the Year” award from the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (2005).

He maintains a blog on the Ekho Moskvy radio website.

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Psychology issues

• Nikolskaya A. A., Radzikhovsky L. A.: Development of developmental and educational psychology in the USSR over 70 years of Soviet power 87’1 p.5
• Radzikhovsky L. A.: Cultivating a sense of social responsibility in adolescents 87’1 p.182
• Radzikhovsky L. A.: On practical activities in the field of psychology 87’3 p.122
• Radzikhovsky L. A.: Discussion problems of Marxist theory in Soviet psychological science 88’1 p.124
• Ravich-Shcherbo I.V., Radzikhovsky L.A., Rozin M.V.: System-activity approach in personality psychology 88’1 p.177
• Radzikhovsky L. A.: Study of the psychological characteristics of informal youth associations 88’4 p.182
• Radzikhovsky L. A.: Freud's theory: change of attitude 88’6 p.100
• Orlov A. B., Radzikhovsky L. A.: Strange motives, or tribute to the past 89’2 p.164
• Radzikhovsky L. A.: Logical analysis and the problem of understanding in psychology 89’5 p.99

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Anna Mikhailovna was already hugging her and crying. The Countess cried too. They cried that they were friends; and that they are good; and that they, friends of youth, are busy with such a low subject - money; and that their youth had passed... But the tears of both were pleasant...

Countess Rostova with her daughters and already a large number of guests was sitting in the living room. The Count led the male guests into his office, offering them his hunting collection of Turkish pipes. Occasionally he would go out and ask: has she arrived? They were waiting for Marya Dmitrievna Akhrosimova, nicknamed in society le terrible dragon, [a terrible dragon,] a lady famous not for wealth, not for honors, but for her directness of mind and frank simplicity of manner. Marya Dmitrievna was known by the royal family, all of Moscow and all of St. Petersburg knew her, and both cities, surprised by her, secretly laughed at her rudeness and told jokes about her; nevertheless, everyone without exception respected and feared her.
In the office, full of smoke, there was a conversation about the war, which was declared by the manifesto, about recruitment. No one had read the manifesto yet, but everyone knew about its appearance. The Count was sitting on an ottoman between two neighbors who were smoking and talking. The count himself did not smoke or speak, but tilting his head, now to one side, now to the other, looked with visible pleasure at those smoking and listened to the conversation of his two neighbors, whom he pitted against each other.
One of the speakers was a civilian, with a wrinkled, bilious and shaved thin face, a man already approaching old age, although dressed like the most fashionable young man; he sat with his feet on the ottoman with the air of a domestic man and, throwing amber far into his mouth from the side, impulsively inhaled the smoke and squinted. It was the old bachelor Shinshin, the countess's cousin, an evil tongue, as they said about him in Moscow drawing rooms. He seemed to condescend to his interlocutor. Another, fresh, pink, guards officer, impeccably washed, buttoned up and combed, held amber in the middle of his mouth and lightly pulled out smoke with his pink lips, releasing it in ringlets from his beautiful mouth. This was Lieutenant Berg, an officer of the Semenovsky regiment, with whom Boris rode together in the regiment and with whom Natasha teased Vera, the senior countess, calling Berg her fiancé. The Count sat between them and listened attentively. The most enjoyable activity for the Count, with the exception of the game of Boston, which he loved very much, was the position of listening, especially when he managed to pit two talkative interlocutors against each other.
“Well, of course, father, mon tres honorable [most venerable] Alfons Karlych,” said Shinshin, laughing and combining (which was the peculiarity of his speech) the most popular Russian expressions with refined French phrases. - Vous comptez vous faire des rentes sur l "etat, [You expect to have income from the treasury,] do you want to receive income from the company?
- No, Pyotr Nikolaich, I just want to show that cavalry has much less benefits against infantry. Now figure out, Pyotr Nikolaich, my situation...
Berg always spoke very precisely, calmly and courteously. His conversation always concerned himself alone; he always remained calmly silent while they were talking about something that had nothing directly to do with him. And he could remain silent in this way for several hours without experiencing or causing the slightest confusion in others. But as soon as the conversation concerned him personally, he began to speak at length and with visible pleasure.
- Consider my position, Pyotr Nikolaich: if I were in the cavalry, I would receive no more than two hundred rubles a third, even with the rank of lieutenant; and now I get two hundred and thirty,” he said with a joyful, pleasant smile, looking at Shinshin and the count, as if it was obvious to him that his success would always be the main goal of the desires of all other people.
“Besides, Pyotr Nikolaich, having joined the guard, I am visible,” Berg continued, “and vacancies in the guards infantry are much more frequent.” Then, figure out for yourself how I could make a living out of two hundred and thirty rubles. “And I’m putting it aside and sending it to my father,” he continued, starting the ring.
“La balance y est... [The balance is established...] A German is threshing a loaf of bread on the butt, comme dit le proverbe, [as the proverb says],” Shinshin said, shifting the amber to the other side of his mouth and winked at the count.
The Count burst out laughing. Other guests, seeing that Shinshin was talking, came up to listen. Berg, not noticing either ridicule or indifference, continued to talk about how by transferring to the guard he had already won a rank in front of his comrades in the corps, how in wartime a company commander can be killed, and he, remaining senior in the company, can very easily be company commander, and how everyone in the regiment loves him, and how his daddy is pleased with him. Berg apparently enjoyed telling all this, and did not seem to suspect that other people might also have their own interests. But everything he told was so sweetly sedate, the naivety of his young egoism was so obvious that he disarmed his listeners.
- Well, father, you will be in action in both the infantry and the cavalry; “This is what I predict for you,” said Shinshin, patting him on the shoulder and lowering his legs from the ottoman.
Berg smiled happily. The Count, followed by the guests, went into the living room.

There was that time before a dinner party when the assembled guests do not begin a long conversation in anticipation of the call for appetizers, but at the same time consider it necessary to move and not remain silent in order to show that they are not at all impatient to sit down at the table. The owners glance at the door and occasionally glance at each other. From these glances, guests try to guess who or what else they are waiting for: an important relative who is late, or food that is not yet ripe.
Pierre arrived just before dinner and sat awkwardly in the middle of the living room on the first available chair, blocking everyone's path. The Countess wanted to force him to speak, but he naively looked through his glasses around him, as if looking for someone, and answered all the Countess’s questions in monosyllables. He was shy and alone did not notice it. Most of the guests, who knew his story with the bear, looked curiously at this big, fat and humble man, wondering how such a bumpkin and modest man could do such a thing to a policeman.
-Have you arrived recently? – the countess asked him.
“Oui, madame,” he answered, looking around.
-Have you seen my husband?
- Non, madame. [No, madam.] - He smiled completely inappropriately.
– You, it seems, were recently in Paris? I think it's very interesting.
- Very interesting..
The Countess exchanged glances with Anna Mikhailovna. Anna Mikhailovna realized that she was being asked to occupy this young man, and, sitting down next to him, began to talk about her father; but just like the countess, he answered her only in monosyllables. The guests were all busy with each other. Les Razoumovsky... ca a ete charmant... Vous etes bien bonne... La comtesse Apraksine... [The Razoumovskys... It was amazing... You are very kind... Countess Apraksina...] was heard from all sides. The Countess got up and went into the hall.
- Marya Dmitrievna? – her voice was heard from the hall.
“She’s the one,” a rough female voice was heard in response, and after that Marya Dmitrievna entered the room.
All the young ladies and even the ladies, with the exception of the oldest ones, stood up. Marya Dmitrievna stopped at the door and, from the height of her corpulent body, holding high her fifty-year-old head with gray curls, looked around at the guests and, as if rolling up, slowly straightened the wide sleeves of her dress. Marya Dmitrievna always spoke Russian.