Alec Nouw in this book tries to find out the intentions and goals of the socialist countries, consider their resources and analyze the internal organization of the economy. When considering these issues, the author focuses on the Soviet Union. He recognizes that in recent years, a number of useful organizational and economic measures have been carried out in the Soviet Union and other countries of the socialist camp, which have caused a new economic recovery and an increase in the living standards of the population. At the same time, he resorts to fabrications, trying to explain the successes achieved by the presence of allegedly such "factors" that force the leaders of the countries of the socialist camp to support the "dynamism of Soviet economic expansion."