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Author : Felipe M. Arconada
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Why a Shortage of Consumer Goods in the Soviet Union? written by Felipe M. Arconada and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas L. Chirovsky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Why a Shortage of Consumer Goods in the Soviet Union? written by Nicholas L. Chirovsky and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kent Osband
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1451845618
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (518 download)
Download or read book Economic Crisis in a Shortage Economy written by Kent Osband and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 1991-04-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not unusual for reforming socialist economies to relax wage controls without hardening budget constraints on enterprises or freeing consumer goods prices. This policy can be dangerously destabilizing. While higher wages permit workers to purchase more of some goods, they also tend to exacerbate shortages and to breed waste and corruption. Beyond a certain level, economy-wide wage hikes will worsen worker welfare. This is true regardless of whether deficit goods are strictly rationed, are sold randomly at official prices to queuing workers, or are offered to workers by “insiders” only at black market prices. However, the form of allocation does influence output and worker welfare.
Author : Natalya Chernyshova
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135046271
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Soviet Consumer Culture in the Brezhnev Era written by Natalya Chernyshova and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. The book uses a wealth of sources to explore the challenge that consumer modernity was posing to Soviet ‘mature socialism’ between the mid-1960s and the early 1980s. It combines analysis of economic policy and public debates on consumerism with the stories of ordinary people and their attitudes to fashion, Western goods and the home. The book contests the notion that Soviet consumers were merely passive, abused, eternally queuing victims and that the Brezhnev era was a period of ‘stagnation’, arguing instead that personal consumption provided the incentive and the space for individuals to connect and interact with society and the regime even before perestroika. This book offers a lively account of Soviet society and everyday life during a period which is rapidly becoming a new frontier of historical research.
Author : Alena V. Ledeneva
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521627436
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (274 download)
Download or read book Russia's Economy of Favours written by Alena V. Ledeneva and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-06 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word blat refers to the system of informal contacts and personal networks which was used to obtain goods and services under the rationing which characterised Soviet Russia. Alena Ledeneva's book is the first to analyse blat in all its historical, socio-economic and cultural aspects, and to explore its implications for post-Soviet society. In a socialist distribution system which resulted in constant shortages, blat developed into an 'economy of favours' which shadowed an overcontrolling centre and represented the reaction of ordinary people to the social constraints they faced. In social and economic terms, blat exchanges became vital to the population, and to the functioning of the Soviet system. The book shows that the nature of the economic and political changes in contemporary Russia cannot be properly understood without attention to the powerful legacy of the blat economy.
Author : Roger Skurski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Distribution of Consumer Goods in the Soviet Union written by Roger Skurski and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Consumer in the Soviet Economy written by Philip Hanson and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger B. Skurski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (958 download)
Download or read book The Distribution of Consumer Goods in the Soviet Union written by Roger B. Skurski and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Norman V. Mayall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Planning and Production of Consumer Goods in the Soviet Union - 1956-1965 written by Norman V. Mayall and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Lovell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199238480
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Union: A Very Short Introduction written by Stephen Lovell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-23 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a fresh approach to the study of the Soviet Union, this Very Short Introduction blends political history with an investigation into Soviet society and culture from 1917 to 1991. Stephen Lovell examines aspects of patriotism, political violence, poverty, and ideology, and provides answers to some of the big questions about the Soviet experience. Throughout, the book takes a refreshing thematic approach to the Soviet Union and provides an up-to-date consideration of the Soviet Union's impact and what we have learnt since its end.
Author : Horst Herlemann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000308812
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Quality Of Life In The Soviet Union written by Horst Herlemann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quality of life" is a difficult concept to define, and particularly so when referring to the Soviet Union because Westerners have many preconceptions about Soviet living conditions. This volume goes a long way toward illuminating the realities of daily Soviet life and stands as an important contribution to our understanding of the Soviet Union. Contributors focus primarily on the relation of quality of life to living conditions but also discuss the quality and availability of state-provided services such as education, health care, and housing. Of special interest is their coverage of problems in Soviet society, including working conditions in factories, living conditions in rural areas, alcohol abuse, and the status of the elderly. Together these essays show that although the Soviet government has made great strides in improving the living conditions of its citizens, Soviet living standards and services are relatively poor by Western standards and several important social problems continue to burden the Soviet people.
Author : Byung-Yeon Kim
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Shortages and the Informal Economy in the Soviet Republics, 1965-89 written by Byung-Yeon Kim and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study measures the informal economy and shortages of consumer goods in the Soviet republics from 1965 to 1989 to estimate the relationships between these two variables. Using estimation methods, including a fixed-effect model and the instrumental variable approach, we find that the informal economy and shortages reinforced each other. Results indicate that the Soviet central planning system was difficult to sustain. Substantial heterogeneities across the Soviet republics exist not only in the extent of the informal economy and shortages, but also in the associations between the two variables.
Author : Marie Lavigne
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349273139
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Economics of Transition written by Marie Lavigne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Substantially revised and updated the second edition of this highly acclaimed text is both a vital guide and a valuable critical analysis. The book provides a contemporary comparative approach to the process of transformation of the economies of Eastern Europe and Russia. Supplying a large amount of factual and statistical information it also includes consideration of recent progress in the areas of macro-economic-stabilisation, micro-economic restructuring and integration into the world economy.
Author : Francis Spufford
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970419
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Red Plenty written by Francis Spufford and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Spufford cunningly maps out a literary genre of his own . . . Freewheeling and fabulous." —The Times (London) Strange as it may seem, the gray, oppressive USSR was founded on a fairy tale. It was built on the twentieth-century magic called "the planned economy," which was going to gush forth an abundance of good things that the lands of capitalism could never match. And just for a little while, in the heady years of the late 1950s, the magic seemed to be working. Red Plenty is about that moment in history, and how it came, and how it went away; about the brief era when, under the rash leadership of Khrushchev, the Soviet Union looked forward to a future of rich communists and envious capitalists, when Moscow would out-glitter Manhattan and every Lada would be better engineered than a Porsche. It's about the scientists who did their genuinely brilliant best to make the dream come true, to give the tyranny its happy ending. Red Plenty is history, it's fiction, it's as ambitious as Sputnik, as uncompromising as an Aeroflot flight attendant, and as different from what you were expecting as a glass of Soviet champagne.
Author : Hedrick Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780722179529
Total Pages : 639 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (795 download)
Download or read book The Russians written by Hedrick Smith and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 639 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alec Nove
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (42 download)
Download or read book The Soviet Economy written by Alec Nove and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. A. Smith
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191667528
Total Pages : 834 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism written by S. A. Smith and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 834 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of Communism on the twentieth century was massive, equal to that of the two world wars. Until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, historians knew relatively little about the secretive world of communist states and parties. Since then, the opening of state, party, and diplomatic archives of the former Eastern Bloc has released a flood of new documentation. The thirty-five essays in this Handbook, written by an international team of scholars, draw on this new material to offer a global history of communism in the twentieth century. In contrast to many histories that concentrate on the Soviet Union, The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism is genuinely global in its coverage, paying particular attention to the Chinese Revolution. It is 'global', too, in the sense that the essays seek to integrate history 'from above' and 'from below', to trace the complex mediations between state and society, and to explore the social and cultural as well as the political and economic realities that shaped the lives of citizens fated to live under communist rule. The essays reflect on the similarities and differences between communist states in order to situate them in their socio-political and cultural contexts and to capture their changing nature over time. Where appropriate, they also reflect on how the fortunes of international communism were shaped by the wider economic, political, and cultural forces of the capitalist world. The Handbook provides an informative introduction for those new to the field and a comprehensive overview of the current state of scholarship for those seeking to deepen their understanding.
