The experience gained during this time is unique, and the ideas and strategies that were natural to the distant pre-Perestroika years—artist self-organization, collecting and preserving archives, limited-edition publications, and apartment exhibitions—have proven valuable even today. The title of the book is "An Artist Must Think!" and this is especially relevant today, when the foundations of world culture and contemporary art are changing radically. Wars, aggression, censorship, prohibitions, new and old ideologies are actively permeating our daily lives and creativity from all sides. We must fight again and again for freedom of thought; it is our only chance to survive.