The interuniversity collection "Legal means of improving the economic mechanism in the light of the decisions of the XXVII Congress of the CPSU" highlights the current theoretical and practical legal problems of implementing the decisions of the XXVII Congress of the CPSU on restructuring and improving the economic mechanism, the impact of technical progress on law enforcement, ways to improve trade, the social transformations outlined by the CPSU in the country. The experience of the GDRs is considered.