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Author Chernyshova, Natalya, author.

Title Soviet consumer culture in the Brezhnev era / Natalya Chernyshova
Published Abingdon, Oxon : Taylor & Francis, 2013
©2013

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Series BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European Studies ; 90
BASEES/Routledge series on Russian and East European studies
Summary 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
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Subject Consumers -- Soviet Union -- History
Consumption (Economics) -- Soviet Union
Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects -- Soviet Union
Cost and standard of living -- Soviet Union
Consumers
Consumption (Economics)
Consumption (Economics) -- Political aspects
Cost and standard of living
Economic history
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1965-1975. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125729
Soviet Union -- Economic conditions -- 1975-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125730
Subject Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1299715982
9781299715981
9781135046279
1135046271