In the book offered to the reader for the first time in modern Russian literature, the course of events in the USSR in the 20-80s is presented from a Marxist position. Relying on a wide range of sources, the author revealed the reasons and mechanism of bourgeois restoration and refuted many historical myths of the past and present. Designed for historians, political scientists, sociologists, philosophers, economists and all those who are not indifferent to the past, present and future of our Motherland.