ABSTRACT
The majority of journalists and scholars in looking at the tragic situation in Russia and the other states of the former USSR these days, view it as a product of socialism and Marxism. True, writers from Russia add the qualifiers "barracks," "feudal," etc., to the word "socialism." Writers from other states of the former USSR underscore that the Soviet system was a direct continuation of Russian imperialism and chauvinism. Some of our intellectuals write quite simply about socialism, which in their opinion has demonstrated that it is unworkable even in small doses (for example, in Great Britain under the Labour Party) and is the consequence of a theoretical utopia at variance with the normal course of life.
