 Complete the following phrase:  Alekseyev was a staunch communist and, during the ideological feuds between literary liberal and patriotic factions, invariably supported the latter. In 1969 he was among those who signed the infamous Ogoniok-published open letter condemning Novy Mir, and never repented. As a Moskva magazines editor-in-chief he published Nikolay Karamzins History of the Russian State in full, which at the time was regarded as a daring challenge to academician Alexander Yakovlev, perestroikas main ideologist. In 1990s Alekseyev criticized Boris Yeltsin and his team of reformists. Outraged by the 