Social history of Soviet trade. Trade policy, retail and consumption. (1917-1953)

Julie Hessler considers the history of Soviet trade from the October Revolution to the death of Stalin.

During this time, property relations in Soviet society have passed several fundamentally different stages, from military communism through the NEP to the Stalinist attempt to minimize the private sector of the economy.

each of these stages was accompanied by certain challenges and tragedies, whether war or dispossession - and all this together influenced the consumer habits of Soviet citizens.

The author shows the cyclic character of the Soviet The trading sector - from the crisis to normalization - and demonstrates the relationship between the official and unofficial markets of the USSR.