Communism and consumerism : : the Soviet alternative to the affluent society / / edited by Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova.
Consumption in Russia and the former USSR has been lately studied as regards the pre-revolutionary and early Soviet period. The history of Soviet consumption and the Soviet variety of consumerism in the 1950s-1990s has hardly been studied at all. This book concentrates on the late Soviet period but...
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| Superior document: | Eurasian studies library, v. 7 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston ;, Leiden : : Brill,, [2015] c2016. |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Eurasian Studies Library
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material
- 1 The Spirit of Consumerism in Russia and the West / Timo Vihavainen
- 2 Consumerism and the Soviet Project / Timo Vihavainen
- 3 Ideology of Consumption in the Soviet Union / Olga Gurova
- 4 How and What to Consume: Patterns of Soviet Clothing Consumption in the 1950s and 1960s / Larissa Zakharova
- 5 The Soviet Consumer - More than Just a Soviet Man / Elena Bogdanova
- 6 Meshchanstvo, or the Spirit of Consumerism and the Russian Mind / Timo Vihavainen
- 7 Afterword / Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova
- Appendix / Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova
- Index / Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova.