“The construction of the USSR was a civilizational project on a global scale,” writes the author of this book, the largest Russian scientist, sociologist and political scientist Sergei Georgievich Kara-Murza. – The experience of the USSR showed the whole world: it is possible for peoples who are very different culturally, religiously and socially to live together without colonization. But the Western cultural elite rejected this lesson. She participated in the destruction of the USSR, in the creation of false myths about it, and then in the propaganda of the “new world order”, which gravitates towards global fascism. And an influential part of the Russian intelligentsia betrayed Russia and went over to the side of its enemy in the Cold War.” In his new book, S.G. Kara-Murza shows how the Soviet civilizational project was created, on what it was based in politics, economics, sociology, in everyday consciousness, whether this project really outlived its usefulness, or there were other reasons for its collapse. Research by S.G. Kara-Murza relies on a huge array of documentary material, domestic and foreign.