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Record Nr.

UNISA996248119903316

Autore

Hessler Julie <1966->

Titolo

A Social History of Soviet Trade : Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953 / / Julie Hessler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 2004

©2004

ISBN

1-4008-4356-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 366 p. )

Disciplina

381/.1/094709041

Soggetti

Sociale aspecten

Consumptie

Economische crises

Binnenlandse handel

Retail trade

Consumption (Economics)

Commercial policy

15.70 history of Europe

Consommation (Économie politique) - URSS - Histoire

Commerce de detail - URSS - Histoire

Consumption (Economics) - Soviet Union - History

Retail trade - Soviet Union - History

History

Electronic books.

Soviet Union

URSS Politique commerciale

Soviet Union Commercial policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Crisis: revolution -- 1. Trade and consumption in revolutionary Russia -- 2. The invention of socialism -- 3. Shopkeepers and the state -- Crisis: Restructuring -- 4. War communism redux -- 5. Toward a new model -- Crisis: War -- 6. The persistent private sector -- 7. Postwar



normalization and its limits.

Sommario/riassunto

"Drawing on newly opened archives in Moscow and several provinces, this documented work offers a new perspective on the social, economic, and political history of the formative decades of the USSR."--Jacket.

"In this study, Julie Hessler traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. The book places trade and consumption in the context of debilitating economic crises. Although Soviet leaders, and above all, Stalin, identified socialism with the modernization of retailing and the elimination of most private transactions, these goals conflicted with the economic dynamics that produced shortages and with the government's bureaucratic, repressive, and socially discriminatory political culture."