About the book: 2024 / The Soviet economy of the second half of the 20th century has always been the subject of heated discussions and the most fierce debates, in which anti-Sovietists of all ranks and stripes postulated the historical doom of not only the Soviet “ project”, but also socialism as a social system. In his new book, E.Yu. Spitsyn managed not only to find many valuable and extremely interesting documents, facts and evidence, but also to refute a lot of fakes related to the “GULAG economy”, the inefficiency of the Stalinist economic model, the imaginary achievements of Khrushchev’s “great decade”, the reasons for the beginning, progress and failure of a number of “Kosygin reforms”, the logical result of which was “Andropov-Gorbachev reformism”, which led to the death of the Soviet Union and the European socialist camp. This publication will be of interest to all history buffs, but especially to students, teachers and university professors.