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Mukhina Irina <1979-> |
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Women and the birth of Russian capitalism : a history of the shuttle trade / / Irina Mukhina ; Yuni Dorr, design |
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DeKalb, Illinois : , : NIU Press, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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ISBN |
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1-5017-5815-2 |
1-60909-152-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (183 p.) |
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Collana |
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NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women merchants - Soviet Union - History |
Businesswomen - Soviet Union - History |
Small business - Soviet Union - History |
Black market - Soviet Union - History |
Soviet Union Commerce History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Origins of the shuttle trade, 1987-91 -- The "golden age" of the shuttle trade and its structure -- Women traders: success in numbers -- The price of success -- Where did all the women go? |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Little has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s. The term itself seems to suggest something of a rather small scale. Indeed, the amount of each transaction in this trade was miniscule. Individual peddlers traveled to near-abroad with their bulging bags and brought back home for resale only as many goods as they could personally carry in their enormous suitcases. The phenomenon hidden behind the term "shuttle trade" was by no means insignificant or small in scale. By the mid-1990s, it constituted the backbone of Russian consumer trade and was a substantial source of revenue.The primary participants in the shuttle trade were women, and in this enlightening study Mukhina assesses the reasons why women were attracted to this business, the range of the personal experiences of female shuttle traders, and the social impact of women's involvement in this sort of |
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