As the outstanding modern sociologist, economist and political scientist Sergei Georgievich Kara-Murza writes in his new book, anyone who tries to understand the process of the USSR's shift to its collapse must rationally and soberly imagine the maturing of the degradation of our picture of the world in the second part of the 20th century - from the creation of classical political economies of the New Age to their deep crisis and collapse. But there is hope that it is easier for us to understand this problem than in the West - we have not yet delved into the caves of capitalism and post-industrialism, but the symptoms of our illness are still visible. This book is written about this.