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

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

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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Hessler, Julie,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
©2004
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.) :; 13 halftones. 10 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Crisis: Revolution
  • CHAPTER ONE. Trade and Consumption in Revolutionary Russia
  • CHAPTER TWO. The Invention of Socialism
  • CHAPTER THREE. Shopkeepers and the State
  • Crisis: Restructuring
  • CHAPTER FOUR. War Communism Redux
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Toward a New Model
  • Crisis: War
  • CHAPTER SIX. The Persistent Private Sector
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Postwar Normalization and Its Limits
  • Conclusion
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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