This is the SECOND Edition of the book of the same title published in 2025. The memoir "Tamara Life in the Soviet Union and under Capitalism" is written by a Russian who lived half her life under the Soviet regime and the other half in Canada. As the work is a letter to her granddaughter, Tamara's life, situations, and feelings are described as they were, without consideration for political correctness or in order to match to taste of the present time; it is the real life of an ordinary person. The second edition has "Afterword , 2023" chapter added. Author Tamara Bukhanov gives her opinion on both systems, her thoughts on various subjects provoke readers to examine their own opinions and views.