A book is sanctified to the problems into that the authoritarian modes run in the полиэтнических states, whose economy largely depends on unforeseeable price-waves on fuel and energy resources. This problem is actual for modern Russia, and an author explains, what errors sufferet Soviet Union, it would not be necessary to repeat. An unicity of book is in that Yegor Гайдар first shows evidently, how politics of collectivization, bringing to ruin our agriculture, predetermined through sixty with small years speed-up crash of the soviet mode that de facto became a bankrupt by that time. Which the real economic position was outwardly mighty supercountry, whether disintegration was the USSR absolutely inevitable, whether it was possible to produce dismantling of the soviet system somehow differently and why in Russia was impossible Chinese or латиноамериканский way of transformations - answers for these questions you will find in "Death of empire.