The article analyses problems of historiography of social everyday life of 1950-1960s. It generalizes and systematizes the scientists’ opinions on the content and structure of concept “social everyday life”. The author determines questions of social everyday life which are relatively good investigated. These are questions of household, free time and lifestyle of people. It considers publications revealing the peculiarities of soviet everyday life. The author makes a conclusion that the problems of everyday life culture, world view of the soviet person and models of his behavior remain poorly studied.