Title Cigarettes and Soviets : smoking in the USSR / Tricia Starks

Published Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, [2022]

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) : illustrations Series NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. Contents Introduction : The Revolutionary Soviet Smoker -- 1. Attacked : Commissar Semashko and Tobacco Prohibition -- 2. Resurrected : Nationalized Factories and Revitalized Industry -- 3. Sold : Revolutionary Advertising and Communist Consumption -- 4. Treated : Individual Will and Collective Therapy -- 5. Unfulfilled : Commissar Mikoian and Stalinized Production -- 6. Mobilized : Frontline Provision and Factory Evacuations -- 7. Recovered : Women's Kingdoms and Manly Habits -- 8. Partnered : Space Cigarettes and Soviet Marlboros -- 9. Pressured : Demographic Crisis and Popular Discontent -- Epilogue : The Post-Soviet Smoker Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 18, 2022) Subject 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 Cigarettes Smoking Tobacco Tobacco industry Tobacco use USSR, Soviet Union. Russia. Cultural studies: customs & traditions. Public health & preventive medicine. History of medicine. Food and Drink. Soviet Union Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021056977 ISBN 9781501765766 1501765760 9781501765759 1501765752

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