The Soviet Dream World of Retail Trade and Consumption in the 1930s

In the early 1930s Soviet authorities launched a campaign to create socialist retailing and also endorsed Soviet consumerism. How did the Stalinist regime reconcile retailing and consumption with socialism? This book examines the discourses that the Stalinist regime's new approach to retailing and consumption engendered.

Author: A. Randall
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/01/2008
Pages: 251
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.60w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780230573963

About the Author
AMY RANDALL is Assistant Professor of History at Santa Clara University, USA.