ISBN:
9780415687546
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (280 p)
Series Statement:
BASEES / Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Series Statement:
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era
DDC:
306.30947/09047
Keywords:
Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects - Soviet Union
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Consumption (Economics) - Political aspects - Soviet Union
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
After decades of turmoil and trauma, the Brezhnev era brought stability and an unprecedented rise in living standards to the Soviet Union, enabling ordinary people to enjoy modern consumer goods on an entirely new scale. This book 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 modernization. However, the resulting consumer revolution brought its own problems for the socialist regime. Rising well-being and the resulting ethos of consumption altered citizens' rel
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
ConclusionNote on sources; Notes; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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