Communism and Consumerism : The Soviet Alternative to the Affluent Society
Timo. Vihavainen
Bok Engelsk 2015 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | : : BRILL, , 2015.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (196 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements ; About This Book; Chapter 1; The Spirit of Consumerism in Russia and the West; Timo Vihavainen; The Problem of the Consumerist Mentality; The Special Case of Russian and Soviet Consumerism; Consumerism and Rationality in Europe; The Birth of Consumerism as a Moral Revolution; Rational Hedonism as the Ethical Norm in the West; The Moralizing Anti-Hedonist Heritage of Marxism; 'Russia's Specific Path of Development' and the Question of Consumerism; Traditional Ideas Concerning Luxury and Opulence in a Land of Peasants. - Consumerism and the End of the Soviet Union'The World Revolution of Consumerism' and Russia; Russia - a Latecomer with a Special Heritage; Chapter 3; The Ideology of Consumption in the Soviet Union; Olga Gurova; The Concept of Ideology; Revolutionary Doctrine of Taste and Everyday Asceticism: The 1920s; The Ideology of Kulturnost' and Legitimating of Consumption in the 1930s and 1940s; The Ideology of Soviet Taste: The 1950s and 1960s; The Ideology of Growing Materialization: The 1970s and 1980s; After Socialism; Conclusion; Chapter 4. - How and What to Consume: Patterns of Soviet Clothing Consumption in the 1950s and 1960sLarissa Zakharova; Evaluation of Needs and the Theory of Socialist Consumption; Legal and Illegal Strategies of Buying Clothes; Correlation between Socio-economic Factors and the Choice of Consuming Strategies; Influence of the Cultural Factor on the Choice of Consumer Strategies; Mechanisms in the Spreading of Fashion; Conclusion; Archival Materials; Chapter 5; The Soviet Consumer - More than Just a Soviet Man; Elena Bogdanova; The Contradictions of Soviet Consumption; What They Complained About. - The Antibourgeois Tradition in Early Twentieth Century Russian CultureChapter 2; Consumerism and the Soviet Project; Timo Vihavainen; The Ideology: Focus on Leveling and Producing; The Practice: From Scarcity for Everybody to Well-Being for the Best; A Farewell to Leveling; From 'Virtual Consumerism' to a Hunger for Goods; Grande Finale: 'The Party Solemnly Declares: the Contemporary Generation of the Soviet People will Live in Communism!'; 'Remnants of the Past' or Products of Socialist Society? Consumer Attitudes without Consumerism?; Victory in the Wrong Race?. - Where They Lodged Their ComplaintsComplaints of Soviet Consumers in the Press; The Book of Complaints and Suggestions; Strategies Used when Writing Consumer Complaints; Conclusions; List of Quoted Interviews; Chapter 6; Meshchanstvo or the Spirit of Consumerism and the Russian Mind; Timo Vihavainen; The Concepts of the Study; The Intellectuals and the Intelligenty. Some Comparison; The Aim of the Study; The Techniques and the Sample; 'Intelligent', 'Intelligentnost'' as Moral Categories; Meshchanstvo -the Spirit of Consumerism; Conclusion; Chapter 7; Afterword; Appendix; Index
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| Emner | Communism - History
Consumption (Economics) - Soviet Union Business & Economics Economic History forbruk forbrukspolitikk økonomi |
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| ISBN | 978-90-04-30396-6
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