Architect amidst the Ruins
OPEN LETTER WRITTEN BY GENNADY ZYUGANOV.
Architect of the Ruins
Architect amidst the Ruins (, other versions: - 'The Architect of the Ruins', - 'To the Architect of the Ruins') was an open letter by Gennady Zyuganov, then a relatively little known party functionary (later leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation) to Alexander Yakovlev, the ideological founder of perestroika, who was also known as the "architect of perestroika". The letter was published in the hardline communist newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya on 7 May 1991.