Kakha Bendukidze contributed to biological science, built a large business in Russia, conducted unprecedented reforms in Georgia in terms of scale and depth, and founded the best Georgian university.

The conversations recorded by the creator of Ukrainian Forbes, Volodymyr Fedorin, are not only an intellectual autobiography of Bendukidze but also one of the most original and inspiring books about the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and its dramatic consequences. Bendukidze believed in historical progress and spent his life fighting (as he himself put it) against the Soviet legacy, under the burden of which most post-Soviet countries still remain.