Soviet consumer culture in the Brezhnev era /

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After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book analyses the politics and economics of the state's efforts to im...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chernyshova, Natalya (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor & Francis, 2013.
Colección:BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies.
Temas:
1965-1985
Consumers > Soviet Union > History.
Consumption (Economics) > Soviet Union.
Consumption (Economics) > Political aspects > Soviet Union.
Cost and standard of living > Soviet Union.
Coût et niveau de la vie > URSS.
Consumers
Consumption (Economics)
Consumption (Economics) > Political aspects
Cost and standard of living
Economic history
Soviet Union > Economic conditions > 1965-1975.
Soviet Union > Economic conditions > 1975-1985.
URSS > Conditions économiques > 1965-1975.
URSS > Conditions économiques > 1975-1985.
Soviet Union
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book analyses the politics and economics of the state's efforts to improve living standards, and shows how mass consumption was often used as an instrument of legitimacy, ideology and modernization. However, the resulting consumer revolution brought its own problems for the socialist regime. Rising well-being and the resulting ethos of consumption altered citizens' rel.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:1299715982
9781299715981
9781135046279
1135046271

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