New directions of development in public catering of the USSR in the post-war period
The article is devoted to the issue of transformations that occurred with the catering system in the Soviet Union after World War II. THe author considers the process of catering development as a separate, independent institution of the Soviet state, directly related to the process of formation of a special Soviet everyday life. Based on the documents of the Main Department of Public Catering at the Main Department of Trade of the Moscow City Executive Committee, contained in the funds of the Central State University, the author concludes that the transformations carried out in the 1950s in the field of public catering were a natural result of the crises that existed at that time.