This week our guest on the podcast is Lev Markovich Shlosberg. Lev Markovich is a Russian politician, a civil society and human rights activist, and a journalist. He is chair of Yabloko’s Pskov regional branch, a member of Yabloko’s federal political committee and a deputy of Pskov regional legislative assembly from the Yabloko party. 

Given the length of the podcast, we have also divided it into three sections that you can listen to separately.

Part One: Gorbachev’s Perestroika. Lev Shlosberg’s early years and the beginnings of public politics under Gorbachev.