Everyday Life in the Soviet Capital during Khrushchev and Brezhnev

This narrative is about that amazing time when trees were large, and prices in stores were low, when books were the main gift and sausage was the primary deficit, when no one was detached from the collective, and the world was understood through television. Readers will learn about how Muscovites worked and rested during those years, what they spent their salaries on and what they saved on, how they survived in communal apartments, and stood in line for products (prices included), which theaters and art exhibitions they visited, and how they managed to get jeans and boots, where in Moscow were the Lighthouse and the Cannon and who was nicknamed "Nikitinsky Gates." Readers will also learn to recognize the speech of that era thanks to a glossary of Moscow life, kindly compiled by the author - the famous historian and writer Alexander Vaskin. The book is written with the involvement of a large number of eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries.