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Moscow Stories: Life, Everyday Life, and Leisure in the Soviet Era as Told by Moscow Residents

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Communal apartments, queues, kerosene shops, Vysotsky's poems played on tape, and neighbors who knew more about you than you did. Sound like scenes from an old film? But that's exactly how an entire country lived.

This book is a unique collection of true stories from Muscovites who lived through the Soviet era. There's no fiction here: only memory, smells, sounds, and details that couldn't be imagined. How do you fit four generations into 16 meters? How did people share a bathtub with neighbors, and why did everyone have their own basin? What did the courtyards of Moscow sound like in the 1940s, 1960s, and 1980s?

The memoirs of twenty-one authors form a remarkable mosaic: funny stories, tragic passages, and the warmth of neighborly support.

This book will make you smile, shed a tear, and, most importantly, feel what it means to live in a large country as one huge family.
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