1969. Blank.
The number of books in young people's personal libraries increased 60 per cent. (from Illustrated History of the USSR)So?
I am taking books, that no longer have the society that supports them (uh! I have got a barn full of them!) and I reduce them to an immensely fragile state (firing in the kiln) - so fragile, that they may disintegrate in hands - just like the memory of the times, that they represent.