A01=Julie Hessler
Author_Julie Hessler
Barter
Bolsheviks
Bourgeoisie
Bread
Budget
Cafeteria
Capitalism
Cashier
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Central Committee
Central government
Class Warfare
Clothing
Commodity
Competition
Consumer
Consumer economy
Consumer Goods
Consumers' co-operative
Coupon
Currency
Customer
Department store
Domestic trade
Economics
Economist
Economy
Economy of the Soviet Union
Employment
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Expense
Financial crisis
Flea market
Food security
Grocery store
Hawker (trade)
Household
Income
Industry
Kulak
Market economy
Market price
Marketing
Merchant
Newspaper
Peasant
Poverty
Price controls
Pricing
Private sector
Procurement
Rabkrin
Rationing
Retail
Ruble
Scarcity
Shopkeeper
Shortage
Smychka
Socialist economics
Soviet Union
Speculation
Stalinism
Supply (economics)
Tax
Tax evasion
Theft
Trade association
Utilization
Vendor
Vodka
War communism
Product details
- ISBN 9780691114927
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 22 Feb 2004
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In this sweeping study, Julie Hessler traces the invention and evolution of socialist trade, the progressive constriction of private trade, and the development of consumer habits from the 1917 revolution to Stalin's death in 1953. The book places trade and consumption in the context of debilitating economic crises. Although Soviet leaders, and above all, Stalin, identified socialism with the modernization of retailing and the elimination of most private transactions, these goals conflicted with the economic dynamics that produced shortages and with the government's bureaucratic, repressive, and socially discriminatory political culture. A Social History of Soviet Trade explores the relationship of trade--official and unofficial--to the cyclical pattern of crisis and normalization that resulted from these tensions. It also provides a singularly detailed look at private shops during the years of the New Economic Policy, and at the remnants of private trade, mostly concentrated at the outdoor bazaars, in subsequent years.
Drawing on newly opened archives in Moscow and several provinces, this richly documented work offers a new perspective on the social, economic, and political history of the formative decades of the USSR.
Julie Hessler is Associate Professor of History at the University of Oregon.
