A social history of Soviet trade : trade policy, retail practices, and consumption, 1917-1953 /

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In this sweeping 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 debilita...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Hessler, Julie, 1966-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2004]
Series:Acls humanities e-book.
Subjects:
Retail trade > Soviet Union > History.
Consumption (Economics) > Soviet Union > History.
Commercial policy.
Commerce de détail > URSS > Histoire.
Politique commerciale.
HISTORY / Europe / Russia & the Former Soviet Union
Consumption (Economics)
Retail trade.
Marketing & Sales.
Commerce.
Business & Economics.
Soviet Union > Commercial policy.
Soviet Union.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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