Bibliograph

Communism and consumerism, the Soviet alternative to the affluent society, edited by Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova

Type

Label

Communism and consumerism, the Soviet alternative to the affluent society, edited by Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Communism and consumerism

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

945668134

Responsibility statement

edited by Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova

Series statement

Eurasian studies library, volume 7

Sub title

the Soviet alternative to the affluent society

Summary

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 it also considers pre-WWII and even pre-revolutionary times.The book consists of articles, which survey the longue durée of Russian and Soviet consumer attitudes, Soviet ideology of consumption as indicated in texts concerning fashion, the world of Soviet fashion planning and the survival strategies of the Soviet consumer complaining against sub-standard goods and services in a command economy. There's also a case study concerning the uses of concepts with anti-consumerist content.--, Provided by Publisher

Table Of Contents

1 The Spirit of Consumerism in Russia and the West 2 Consumerism and the Soviet Project 3 Ideology of Consumption in the Soviet Union 4 How and What to Consume: Patterns of Soviet Clothing Consumption in the 1950s and 1960s 5 The Soviet Consumer - More than Just a Soviet Man 6 Meshchanstvo, or the Spirit of Consumerism and the Russian Mind 7 Afterword Appendix Index

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