Krupin reacted to perestroika with highly politicized novels "The Saving of the Perished" (1988) and "Good-Bye Russia, Meet You in Paradise" (1991), the latter portraying the demise of rural Russia, being deliberately destroyed by the new leadership who turns the country into one psychiatric ward. Outraged by the destruction of the Russian Parliament in October 1993, he reacted by the series of articles ("The Cross and the Void", "The Bitter Grief", and others) published by "Nash Sovremennik" and "Moskva".