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A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 1917-1953 - Couverture souple

Hessler, Julie

 
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Synopsis

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 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Julie Hessler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon. The majority of her studies is dedicated to the Soviet Russia history.

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