The new book by the famous historian and culturologist Natalia Lebina is dedicated to the formation of Soviet everyday life. The author, using the “norm/anomaly” dichotomy, demonstrates, using materials from the 1920s–1950s, the transformation of Bolshevik policies in the spheres of food and housing, fashion and leisure, religiosity and sexuality, as well as a change in attitude towards traditional deviations – drunkenness, suicide, prostitution. The main subject of interest of the researcher is the era of Stalin's grand style, when everyday life not only loses the features of the “extraordinary” nature of war communism and the first five-year plans, but also loses the achievements of the democratic transformations of the 1920s, turning into everyday life of a totalitarian type with a rigid system of regulations and prohibitions.< /p>