A new book by the famous historian and culturologist Natalia Lebina is devoted to the formation of Soviet everyday life. The author, using the dichotomy of "normaanomaly," demonstrates on the materials of the 1920-1950s the transformation of the Bolshevik policy in the field of food and housing, fashion and leisure, religiosity and sexuality, as well as a change in attitude to traditional deviations - drunkenness, suicide, prostitution.