Free Download Selling to the Masses: Retailing in Russia, 1880-1930 (Russian and East European Studies) by Marjorie L. Hilton
English | December 16, 2011 | ISBN: 0822961679 | 344 pages | PDF | 2.52 Mb
Marjorie L. Hilton presents a captivating history of consumer culture in Russia from the 1880s to the early 1930s. She highlights the critical role of consumerism as a vehicle for shaping class and gender identities, modernity, urbanism, and as a mechanism of state power in the transition from tsarist autocracy to Soviet socialism.