Communism and consumerism : the Soviet alternative to the affluent society

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Communism and consumerism : the Soviet alternative to the affluent society

Title remainder

the Soviet alternative to the affluent society

Statement of responsibility

edited by Timo Vihavainen and Elena Bogdanova

Creator

• Vihavainen, Timo

Contributor

• Bogdanova, Elena

Editor

• Bogdanova, Elena
• Vihavainen, Timo

Subject

• Consumption (Economics) -- Soviet Union

Language

eng

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.--

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• Eurasian studies library

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DLC

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index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Eurasian studies library

Series volume

volume 7