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Everyday life in the Soviet capital under Khrushchev and Brezhnev – Alexander Vaskin – Young Guard – 2018 – ISBN 978-5-235-04077-9

Everyday life in the Soviet capital under Khrushchev and Brezhnev
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This is a story about that amazing time when trees were tall and store prices were low, when a book was the most important gift and sausage the most scarce, when no one left their group, and the world was explored through television.

Readers will learn how Muscovites worked and played in those years, how they spent their paychecks and saved, how they survived in communal apartments and stood in grocery lines (prices included), which theaters and art exhibitions they attended, how they got jeans and boots, where in Moscow the Mayak and Pushka were located, and who was nicknamed "Nikitsky Gate." Readers will also learn to recognize the speech of that era thanks to a dictionary of Moscow everyday life, kindly compiled by the author, the renowned historian and writer Alexander Vaskin.

The book draws on numerous eyewitness accounts, memoirs, and diaries.
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