Format:
1 online resource (280 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415687546
,
9781135046279
Series Statement:
BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
Content:
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' relationship with the state and had profound consequences for the communist project
Note:
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 -- Conclusion -- Note on sources -- Notes -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Chernyshova, Natalya Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415687546
Language:
English
Keywords:
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