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

• Autore: Hessler Julie <1966->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J. : , : Princeton University Press, , 2004; ©2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvi, 366 p. )
• Disciplina: 381/.1/094709041
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Soggetto geografico: Soviet Union; URSS Politique commerciale; Soviet Union Commercial policy
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: A social history of Soviet trade
• ISBN: 1-4008-4356-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248119903316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: ACLS Humanities E-Book.