The emergence and rapid growth of the “second (“shadow”) economy” in the USSR in the period 60-80s led to the collapse of the socialist system in the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, according to the authors of this book, American political scientist and economist R. Kiran and T. Kenya. The essence of the “shadow economy” was deeply corrupt and criminal. In view of this, it has found a favorable way for itself to “embellish” and “disguise” such its content by unconditionally unbridled praise of the “merits” of capitalism, moreover, in its unlimited “neoliberal” dimensions. It is precisely this criminal-“neoliberal” conglomerate in In the course of events, the most active internal source of unlimited financial support for all kinds of actions and campaigns against the socialist system began to play a role. Often, the bosses of the “shadow economy” not only financed, but also directly supervised actions of this kind... The book by R. Kiran and T. Kenya is supplied with a large amount of factual material, economic calculations and statistical data on the activities of the “shadow economy” in the USSR.