In the 1960s, the Soviet Union began prohibiting typical goods, common to most middle class consumers, that prompted most citizens to seek goods and supplies via other means. An underground market came to fruition to meet the people’s demands. The … Continue reading →
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Week 10 Posts
Creating Choice in a Planned Economy
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Goods For The People Above is an article from Pravda that addresses the inability of the USSR’s planned economy to meet consumer needs when it came to luxuries such as … Continue reading →
Week 10 Posts
Shop ’til You Drop
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Once the people of the Soviet Union received a taste of what consumerism was and it’s ability to better their lives, there was no stopping it. Typically in “advanced capitalist societies goods chase people” but in the Soviet Union this was the opposite (Siegelbaum). People chased goods. They chased them so much that many times […]
