Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina

Our Daily Bread (eBook, ePUB)

Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This text presents a picture of living standards in pre-war Soviet Russia and the role of state-controlled distribution of food and goods as a tool of Stalinist dictatorship. It offers a different perspective on the regime's method of controlling human behaviour and reshaping the social order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317463368
• Artikelnr.: 42510718

Autorenporträt

Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina

Inhaltsangabe

I: Destruction of the Market: 1927-1930
1: Rationing and Famine-Why?
2: 1927-1928: First Blow to the Market, First Round of Rationing
3: 1928-1929: The Attack on the Market Continues
4: 1929-1930: Dizzy with... Hunger
II: The Inevitability of the Market: 1931-1935
5: The All-Soviet Rationing System: The Carrot and the Stick of the Industrialization Drive
6: The Hierarchy of Poverty
7: Survival Strategies and Spontaneity of the Market
III: The Alliance Between Distribution and the Market: 1936-1941
8: Approaching the Era of "Free" Trade
9: Supply Crises: Moments of Truth for Socialist Trade
10: Business and the Market in the Era of "Free" Trade
Instead of a Conclusion