Our Daily Bread - Socialist Distribution and the Art of Survival in Stalin's Russia, 1927-1941

List of contents

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

About the author

Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina

Summary

This text presents a picture of living standards in pre-war Soviet Russia and the role of state-controlled distribution of food and goods as a tool of Stalinist dictatorship. It offers a different perspective on the regime's method of controlling human behaviour and reshaping the social order.

Product details

• Authors: Elena Osokina, Osokina Elena, Kate Transchel, Transchel Kate
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2000
• EAN: 9781563249044
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-904-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 498 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Far-left political ideologies and movements, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Marxism & Communism, Famine, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made), POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era