Was freedom in the USSR limited or not at all? Could a Soviet person be free from the myths that the system imposed on him, and social domination - to create, equip his life as you want, without interfering with the same right of others? Such freedom is always limited - in different societies to varying degrees and in different directions, says the author of the book, historian Alexander Shubin, reflecting on the ideological movements and social movements that developed in Soviet society in 1953-1984.