This book is a collection of culinary recipes and tips written specifically for residents of two capitals of Soviet Russia, Moscow and Leningrad. It applies to two periods of the Soviet society, developed socialism and communism, which ended in the beginning of the 90s of the last century. The book, however, will be of interest to today's residents of Russia. It might also be useful to people in other regions of the world with similar social structures. Furthermore, this book should prove engaging to the readers who study problems of socialism and communism and it should definitely be enlightening to those who never gave it a thought.