| Communism and Consumerism: The Soviet Alternative to the Affluent Society Contributor(s): Vihavainen (Editor), Bogdanova (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004303960 ISBN-13: 9789004303966 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $131.10 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics - Social Science | Anthropology - General |
| Dewey: 339.470 |
| LCCN: 2015027397 |
| Series: Eurasian Studies Library |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (0.90 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 dur e 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. Contributors include: Lena Bogdanova, Olga Gurova, Timo Vihavainen and Larissa Zakharova. |