According to the well-known statement of S. Kara-Murza, the Soviet society was opposed by the anti-Soviet project that had developed for many years, in which part of the Soviet intelligentsia participated - the so-called dissidents and Soviet Jews, as well as an important trend among the left Western elite - Eurocommunism. Why all this elite - both ours and the Western one - became an opponent of the Soviet system and what role it played in its death - this is the book of the famous writer and scientist.