Was the destruction of the USSR inevitable? Why was the Belovezhskaya Accords not signed immediately, with the beginning of perestroika, for example, in December 1985? Which before the liquidation of the USSR between 1985 and 1991. Was there any “preparatory” work going on? What is the role of the union “center” itself in the destruction of the USSR? How should the March 1991 referendum be assessed: as an attempt to preserve or, conversely, an attempt to legally destroy the USSR? Why was the 1922 “Treaty on the Formation of the USSR” persistently called a “union treaty”? What is the role of law in this? Was the period of destruction of the USSR a time of complete lawlessness or, on the contrary, was there a clear legal mechanism? This book is intended to answer these and other questions.