- Contains captivating and challenging math problems created by Soviet mathematicians that can be solved using elementary mathematics (i.e. "mathematics before calculus")
- Unravels a bizarre page in the history of the exact sciences, i.e., the use of mathematics as a weapon of ideological control of the educational process in the USSR
- Collects works by leading mathematicians including Ilan Vardi, B Kanevsky and V Senderov