ISBN:
9781501765483
Language:
English
Pages:
XVII, 302 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
Series Statement:
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Starks, Tricia, 1969- Cigarettes and Soviets
DDC:
394.1/40947
Keywords:
Smoking History
;
Soviets (People) Tobacco use
;
History
;
Cigarettes History
;
Tobacco History
;
Tobacco industry History
;
Tobacco use History
Abstract:
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.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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