title: «It is best of the accessible»: quality of imported consumer goods of the USSR from the socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (1950s – 1980s)
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Tverdyukova, Elena D.
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2016-08-11T11:12:25Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2016-08-11T11:12:25Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/2588
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article is first studied in the historiography of the problem of import from the countries of
  Central and Eastern Europe in the context of the consumer revolution in the USSR. The author gives primary
  attention to questions of the quality of goods of the mass demand. In the course of a study clerical documents
  and statistical materials from the Russian State Archive of Economy and State Archive of the Russian
  Federation were used, and also the published memoirs and works of literature. The author shows that the
  purchases of imports within the framework of Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON),
  expanded in 1950s, had great significance in the consumption structure of Soviet citizens. Foot-wear,
  clothing, furniture, household goods from socialist countries partly compensated scarcity on the domestic
  market. The quality of these products, however, not always corresponded to the highest standards, deliveries
  were achieved in violation of contractual obligations on the assortment, the timing, the seasonality. The
  government was forced to create the multi-stage system of control, intended to prevent the penetration into
  the retail network of substandard things. However, piety before the import was formed independently of its
  consumer properties, being the component of the mythical means of the West.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: A study is executed with the support RGNF, project № 14-01-00125 «State policy in the sphere of the rights
  of users in the USSR»
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 1
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: USSR
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: central and East Europe
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: users
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: the consumer import
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: «It is best of the accessible»: quality of imported consumer goods of the USSR from the socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe (1950s – 1980s)
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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