In this work, Berdan examines the situation in Russia in its first volume, and in China in the second—focusing on the development of socialism and its socialist foundation, as well as its position under current conditions. This first volume, which deals with Russia, also contains the theoretical groundwork, and therefore makes up the larger part of the study in terms of volume. It offers readers extremely important data for understanding Russia's present day, the Kremlin's confrontation with the imperialist world, and so on. On the occasion of this work, we invite the reader to see beneath the iceberg—a realm full of lies and distortions.