A01=Elena Osokina
A01=Kate Transchel
Author_Elena Osokina
Author_Kate Transchel
black
black market economy USSR
Bread Rationing
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Category=JPFC
Category=NHD
Central Volga
Chronic
collective
collectivization impact studies
Commercial Stores
Commission Stores
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farms
Flax Seeds
food scarcity analysis
Industrial Vanguard
ITR
Nep
nkvd
NKVD Reported
ogpu
OGPU Reports
ORS
Peasant Markets
private
Procurement Campaign
ration
Ration Cards
rationing systems research
reported
reports
Saratov Oblast
Shock Workers
Soviet economic history
Stalinist social control
State Commercial Stores
STO
survival strategies under Stalin
Torgsin Stores
traders
Turkestan Siberian Railroad
Ural Siberian Method
Violated
Volga German Republic
Wo
Product details
- ISBN 9781563249044
- Weight: 498g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 28 Feb 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Drawing on newly available archival materials including official documents, reports, and personal accounts, this remarkable study presents a detailed picture of the living standards of various social groups in prewar Soviet Russia, and the role of state-controlled distribution of food and goods as a tool of the Stalinist dictatorship. The study offers a new perspective not only on the period of collectivization, industrialization, and terror but also on the regime's most rudimentary method of controlling human behavior and reshaping the social order. In her conclusion the author analyzes the long-term impacts of the Stalinist "dictatorship of distribution", from bureaucratization to rural depopulation to the emergence of a distinctive type of black-market economy.
