Marxism has ceased to be a fashionable teaching; it is rejected in school and by modern political scientists. According to the author, the people who threw it away did not take time to look into this outstanding political and economic theory. This is an attempt at a new teaching book in Marxism for Russian students.
I actually got much more from the book than initially expected. For example, I thought that author is either going to stick to and rephrase bare theory or stick only USSR as an example. But gladly it is much wider.
I learned about different views on the subject, economical predisposition and reasons, cultural / historical and other differences in the theory implementation, successes and mistakes, how people perception evolved through time and whether its all make/made sense.