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

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.

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

Product details

• Authors: Elena Osokina, Osokina Elena, Kate Transchel, Transchel Kate
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.06.2003
• EAN: 9781563249051
• ISBN: 978-1-56324-905-1
• No. of pages: 288
• Weight: 530 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Political Ideologies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / General, Political ideologies and movements