The theoretical roots of the oeuvre of Shalamov go back to the some kind of "liberation theology" of the renewal movement in the Orthodox Church developed after 1917 under the leadership of Metropolitan Vvedensky, which movement was ardently supported by his father Tikhon Sahalamov. The "Living Church" movement accepted the moral justice of the October Revolution, which it would like to actively introduce in actual life by the church. According to its adherents "communism is identical to the Gospel but was written in atheistic letters". In the 1930s the Stalinist State, after its Thermidorian turn, rather collaborated with the black-hundredist clergymen, which accepted its dictatorship.

It is understandable if someone dos what causes her pleasure. Nevertheless, our pleasures and gratifications, on a shorter or longer term, might threaten our existence. This analysis tries to examine this conflict from many angles.

On the books of Erzsébet Szalai: Globális válság, magyar válság, alternatívák [Global Crisis, Hungarian Crisis, Alternatives]; Zsuzsa Ferge: Vágányok és vakvágányok a társadalompolitikában [Tracks and Sidetracks in Social Policy]; János Ladányi: Leselejtezettek. A kirekesztett népesség társadalom- és térszerkezeti elhelyezkedésének átalakulása Magyarországon a piacgazdasági átmenet időszakában [On the Waste Heap. The Social and Geographical Transformation of the Outcast Society During Market Transition]. All published by L'Harmattan Kiadó, Budapest 2012.