The book is dedicated to the history of the everyday life of Soviet people from 1917 to the end of the Soviet era - the beginning of the 1990s. Here the main features of the private and public life of Soviet people are revealed, as well as the realities of political, social, and economic life that shaped it. The publication is intended for the mass reader who is interested in the life of their fathers and grandfathers in a bygone and already forgotten era. The creator of this book is Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor L.V. Belovinsky, a specialist in the history of everyday life and the history of material culture, author of a number of textbooks and numerous publications, incl. An encyclopedic dictionary on the history of Russian pre-revolutionary life, published in several editions. The dictionary contains more than 3,000 words and expressions.