The two interviews with a well-known Russian sociologist Boris A. Grushin tell about his creative path to science, about development of public opinion research in the USSR,  establishment and functioning of the Institute of public opinion of the newspaper «Komsomolskaya pravda», about the Taganrog project, about the role of party journalism, particularly, of the magazine «The problems of the world and socialism», about reception of western ideas,  liberalization of social sciences in the Soviet Union and about  two-way influence of press and mass consciousness.