Andrey Nechaev - First Minister of Economy of the New Russia, one of the key figures in the government of reformers of the early 90s. The team of reformers then saved Russia from the real threat of chaos and collapse, creating the foundations of a market economy in a historically meager period. As an active participant in events, the author dispels myths about those times, referred to in recent years as the "damned nineties." He shows that many decisions were dictated by the very situation of the collapse of the economy of the late USSR and the collapse of the state machine. This is what predetermined the radical nature of the reforms. Andrei Nechaev writes openly about mistakes and "sharakhanyas" in politics in subsequent years, including the last decade, which brought the country to its current state.