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Cigarettes and Soviets : smoking in the USSR / Tricia Starks

Starks, Tricia, 1969- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Ithaca, NY : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2022]

XVII, 302 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

2211

Erscheint auch als: Starks, Tricia, 1969- : Cigarettes and Soviets. - Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022 (Online-Ausgabe)

978-1-5017-6548-3 (hardcover)

978-1-5017-6575-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-5017-6576-6 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe); 978-1-5017-6575-9 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

2021056976

GT3021.S69

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LOC-SH: Smoking -- Soviet Union -- History ; Soviets (People) -- Tobacco use -- History ; Cigarettes -- Soviet Union -- History ; Tobacco -- Soviet Union -- History ; Tobacco industry -- Soviet Union -- History ; Tobacco use -- Soviet Union -- History

Introduction : The Revolutionary Soviet Smoker -- Attacked : Commissar Semashko and Tobacco Prohibition -- Resurrected : Nationalized Factories and Revitalized Industry -- Sold : Revolutionary Advertising and Communist Consumption -- Treated : Individual Will and Collective Therapy -- Unfulfilled : Commissar Mikoian and Stalinized Production -- Mobilized : Frontline Provision and Factory Evacuations -- Recovered : Women's Kingdoms and Manly Habits -- Partnered : Space Cigarettes and Soviet Marlboros -- Pressured : Demographic Crisis and Popular Discontent -- Epilogue : The Post-Soviet Smoker.

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"Although the Soviets inaugurated the first national anti-smoking campaign, for reasons from countering popular discontent to exploiting mass addiction for revenue, production continued and increased. Following the story of Soviet tobacco through production, consumption, resistance, and support, this book complicates narratives of tobacco's rise based on western, capitalist markets"--