The collection of articles and speeches presented here to the reader is foremost a collection of political texts, with an important clarification from the author. Vladislav Surkov insists that politics itself is a text. Today, politicians' texts are written by anonymous groups of speechwriters; that's already tradition. Surkov, however, is breaking this tradition. He addresses the reader as both the author of his texts and the concepts they convey.
The collection of articles and speeches presented here to the reader is foremost a collection of political texts, with an important clarification from the author. Vladislav Surkov insists that politics itself is a text. Today, politicians' texts are written by anonymous groups of speechwriters; that's already tradition. Surkov, however, is breaking this tradition. He addresses the reader as both the author of his texts and the concepts they convey.