Our Daily Bread
Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941
Published on 4. March 2015
288 pages
978-1-317-46336-8 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on newly available archival materials including official documents, reports, and personal accounts, this remarkable study presents a detailed picture of the living standards of various social groups in prewar Soviet Russia, and the role of state-controlled distribution of food and goods as a tool of the Stalinist dictatorship. The study offers a new perspective not only on the period of collectivization, industrialization, and terror but also on the regime's most rudimentary method of controlling human behavior and reshaping the social order. In her conclusion the author analyzes the long-term impacts of the Stalinist "dictatorship of distribution", from bureaucratization to rural depopulation to the emergence of a distinctive type of black-market economy.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Illustrations
File size
16,81 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-317-46336-8 (9781317463368)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Kate Transchel | Elena Osokina
Our Daily Bread
Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941
Book
06/2003
1st Edition
Routledge
€63.60
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Kate Transchel | Elena Osokina
Our Daily Bread
Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941
Book
02/2000
1st Edition
Routledge
€206.70
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Persons
Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina
Content
I: Destruction of the Market: 1927-1930; 1: Rationing and Famine-Why?; 2: 1927-1928: First Blow to the Market, First Round of Rationing; 3: 1928-1929: The Attack on the Market Continues; 4: 1929-1930: Dizzy with... Hunger; II: The Inevitability of the Market: 1931-1935; 5: The All-Soviet Rationing System: The Carrot and the Stick of the Industrialization Drive; 6: The Hierarchy of Poverty; 7: Survival Strategies and Spontaneity of the Market; III: The Alliance Between Distribution and the Market: 1936-1941; 8: Approaching the Era of "Free" Trade; 9: Supply Crises: Moments of Truth for Socialist Trade; 10: Business and the Market in the Era of "Free" Trade; Instead of a Conclusion
