In G.V. Andreevsky's second book, the reader will learn about the daily life of Muscovites in the pre-war, wartime, and post-war periods. This era was defined not only by Stalin's personality, but also by the entire charge of energy and ideas unleashed by the Great October Revolution. The author is particularly successful in the pages telling about the workers' and peasants' justice system and the police, about the criminal world of Moscow, about the arrests and interrogations of 1937. The post-war period is also interesting: the victory, the construction of high-rise buildings, monetary reform, football, the Soviet school, and much, much more.
All this factual wealth, which G.V. Andreevsky collected for many years, allows us to see Moscow and Muscovites in a new way, in a previously unknown fullness, and to be imbued with pride in the life's feat of the creators of socialism, the guardians of Russian culture and statehood.