Soviet urban everyday life after the world wars: towards the historiography of the problem

The paper analyzes conceptual approaches to the study of Soviet everyday life in the post-war period. The author reveals the “optimistic, “pessimistic, and pragmatic” images of Soviet history that exist in the historiographic space. Contradictions of urban processes and their impact on the sphere of urban everyday life are recorded. Attention is drawn to the possibilities of interdisciplinary research in this area, and suggestions are made for the development of the comparative component and the use of the cognitive potential of visual anthropology to identify the standards of the Soviet urban lifestyle.