ISSN 2712-7834

Social Novelties & Social Sciences
A view from Moscow

Consumerism in the Soviet society of the 1950s–80s in the mirror of historiography

Social Novelties and Social Sciences № 2(5) 2023
DOI 10.31249/snsneng/2023.02.02
Bolshakova O.V. Consumerism in the Soviet society of the 1950s–80s in the mirror of historiography // Social Novelties and Social Sciences: A View from Moscow. – 2023. – N 2. – P. 35–62.

Abstract:

The article studies the late Soviet consumerism in the Western historiography and considers the insensitivity of the Russian academic community to the consumer society paradigm. Based on the works of Western historians, the history of Soviet consumption and its specific features is presented in her text in the pan-European context. Particular attention is paid to issues that have received coverage in the Western historiography, including the relationship between the Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, the stratification of the Soviet society, and the characteristics of a Soviet consumer.