Plan to save the USSR

Was it possible to save the USSR? Cross the card taking into account national interests, without sharing compatriots into different countries? The hero of the novel by Mikhail Popov Academician Petukhov believed that it was possible, and even prepared a plan for salvation, but ... was killed. The reader of the next book of the series "Cultural Detective" will have to calculate the killer and, together with the author, would speculate about that our country could have another past.
Another alternative story is told in the story "The Last Council of Sherlock Holmes". The author offers in a new way to look at the image of the famous detective, as well as find out what is in common with Sherlock Holmes and Fedor Dostoevsky