The book is devoted to the history of everyday life of a Soviet person from 1917 to the end of the Soviet era - the beginning of the 1990s. It reveals the main features of the private and social life of Soviet people, as well as the realities of political, social, and economic life that shaped it. The publication is designed for a mass reader who is interested in the life of his fathers and grandfathers in a bygone and already forgotten era. The creator of this book is Professor L.V. Belovinsky, a specialist in the history of everyday life and the history of material culture, the author of a number of textbooks and numerous publications, incl. published by several editions of the encyclopedic dictionary on the history of Russian pre-revolutionary life. The dictionary contains more than 3000 words and expressions.