LEADER 04143nam 2200709 450 001 9910787954103321 005 20230803195810.0 010 $a1-5017-5815-2 010 $a1-60909-152-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501758157 035 $a(CKB)2670000000567962 035 $a(EBL)3382603 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266402 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11671962 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266402 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11249976 035 $a(PQKB)11711861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3382603 035 $a(OCoLC)890674614 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33102 035 $a(DE-B1597)571100 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501758157 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3382603 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10950088 035 $a(OCoLC)1229161218 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000567962 100 $a20141016h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen and the birth of Russian capitalism $ea history of the shuttle trade /$fIrina Mukhina ; Yuni Dorr, design 210 1$aDeKalb, Illinois :$cNIU Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (183 p.) 225 0 $aNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-87580-480-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aOrigins 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? 330 $aLittle 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 economic activity. By analyzing the social and gendered dimensions of the shuttle trade, the reader can begin to understand more broadly how gender shaped the "transition" period associated with the end of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Moreover, the difficulties that these women faced highlight the gap between the rhetoric of free market economy and the actual market practices. These women-traders had to create and shape the physical market (an open-air space) for their goods without the basic legislative and other provisions of market economies. The shuttle trade became an avenue of female suffering but also of survival and even empowerment during the time that most Russians now call "the wild 1990s."   606 $aWomen merchants$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aBusinesswomen$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aSmall business$zSoviet Union$xHistory 606 $aBlack market$zSoviet Union$xHistory 607 $aSoviet Union$xCommerce$xHistory 610 $aRussian consumer trade, Russian free market economy, women traders in Russia. 615 0$aWomen merchants$xHistory. 615 0$aBusinesswomen$xHistory. 615 0$aSmall business$xHistory. 615 0$aBlack market$xHistory. 676 $a382.082/0947 700 $aMukhina$b Irina$f1979-$01509921 702 $aDorr$b Yuni 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787954103321 996 $aWomen and the birth of Russian capitalism$93742130 997 $aUNINA