Read blogs Grobman 1960, "Leviathan" - this book and now you can buy:
http://www.bolero.ru/books/978586793...евиафан
Does not read in one breath, but the atmosphere of the time very high quality. Barracks, cold, unsettled life, punching orders for illustration. Those who are fond of the sixties - very useful. Another was struck by two things:
1. Judging by diaries people drank almost every day (guests-shmosti, etc.) and time to somehow work and earn.
2. Cell phones did not, and the phones were not at all - but people are nevertheless closely interacted in the guests went, without special arrangements, at random, without cars. And the information is quickly disseminated without the Internet and all all knew about each other. Now is difficult to imagine
