Natalya Chernyshova

Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era

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Produktbeschreibung

This book tells the story of the late Soviet consumer revolution. It analyses the politics and economics of the state 's efforts to improve living standards, and shows how mass consumption was often used as an instrument of legitimacy, ideology and modernisation. It also discusses however how rising prosperity altered citizens relationship with the state, and how, although the image of Soviet consumers endlessly queuing for inferior products is much overstated, people 's engagement with consumer modernity had profound consequences for the communist project.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415687546
• ISBN-10: 0415687543
• Artikelnr.: 33380922

Autorenporträt

Natalya Chernyshova is a Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Winchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Between Failure and Success: The Economics and Politics of
Consumption under Brezhnev 2. Redefining the Norms of Socialist Consumption
3. Shopping as a Way of Life: The Experiences and Values of Soviet
Consumers 4. Structures of Consumption: Class and Generation 5. From
'Modest' to 'Modish': New Attitudes to Clothes and Fashion 6. Closing the
Door on Socialism: Furniture and the Domestic Interior 7. Household
Technology in the Brezhnev-era Home Conclusion