About the book: year / "The ABC of Life" is a true story about what ordinary Soviet children were like, how they lived, what they thought about, what they aspired to. What was their Motherland - the Soviet Union - like, how they felt about their country, learning to love it not from textbooks, but living with it day after day. How they believed in their Soviet power, feeling themselves an integral part of the fairest state on Earth, the largest and most friendly family in the world with the short and proud name of the USSR.