Sovetest everyday life. Norms and anomalies. From military communism to a large style

The new book of the famous historian and culturalist of Natalia Lebina is devoted to the formation of Soviet everyday life. The author, using the dichotomy "norm/anomaly, demonstrates on the materials of the 1920-1950s the transformation of the policy of the Bolsheviks in the field of nutrition and housing, fashion and leisure, religiosity and sexuality, as well as a change in attitude to traditional deviations-drunkenness, suicide, prostitution. The main subject of interest of the researcher is the era of the Stalinist large style, when an ordinary life not only loses the features of the “extreme” of military communism and the first five -year -olds, but also loses the achievements of the democratic transformations of the 1920s, turning into the everyday life of a totalitarian type with a tough system of prescriptions and prohibitions.
4th edition