This book is based on documentary material from memoirs, archival documents, and press reports from the 1940s. You will learn about many different details of everyday life in “the capital of our Motherland”: schooling in schools, riding trams, washing in bathhouses, studying at workers’ faculties, trading in shops and markets, living in communal apartments, as well as the celebrations and the work of ordinary people—and how they adapted to the conditions of that time.
Some of the most frightening trials fell on Muscovites precisely in those years, but nothing could take away from them their faith in a happy future, in the triumph of justice, and of course in our Victory.