According to the well-known statement of S. Kara-Murza, Soviet society was opposed by an anti-Soviet project that had developed over many years, in which part of the Soviet intelligentsia participated - the so-called dissidents and Soviet Jews, as well as an important movement among the left-wing Western elite - Eurocommunism. Why this entire elite - both ours and the West - became an opponent of the Soviet system and what role it played in its death - this is the book of the famous writer and scientist