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

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Kate Transchel Elena Osokina

Our Daily Bread

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

Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina, Greta Bucher , Kate Transchel (California State University, Chico, USA)

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Routledge
28 February 2000

European history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Famine; Marxism & Communism

"Drawing on newly available archival materials including official documents, reports, and personal accounts, this remarkable study presents a detailed picture of the living standards of various social groups in prewar Soviet Russia, and the role of state-controlled distribution of food and goods as a tool of the Stalinist dictatorship. The study offers a new perspective not only on the period of collectivization, industrialization, and terror but also on the regime's most rudimentary method of controlling human behavior and reshaping the social order. In her conclusion the author analyzes the long-term impacts of the Stalinist ""dictatorship of distribution"", from bureaucratization to rural depopulation to the emergence of a distinctive type of black-market economy."

By: Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina
Translated by: Kate Transchel (California State University Chico USA), Greta Bucher (U.S. Military Academy, USA)
Volume editor: Greta Bucher
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 498g
ISBN: 9781563249044
ISBN 10: 1563249049
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 28 February 2000
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

Kate Transchel, Elena Osokina