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'''Consumer goods in the Soviet Union''' were usually produced by a two-category industry. Group A was "heavy industry", which included all goods that serve as an input required for the [[Manufacturing|production]] of some other, final good. Group B was "'''consumer goods'''", final goods used for [[Consumption (economics)|consumption]], which included [[food]], [[clothing]] and [[shoe]]s, [[ |
'''Consumer goods in the Soviet Union''' were usually produced by a two-category industry. Group A was "[[heavy industry]]", which included all goods that serve as an input required for the [[Manufacturing|production]] of some other, final good. Group B was "'''consumer goods'''", final goods used for [[Consumption (economics)|consumption]], which included [[food]], [[clothing]] and [[shoe]]s, [[housing]], and such heavy-industry products as appliances and fuels that are used by individual consumers. From the early days of the [[History of the Soviet Union (1927–1953)|Stalin era]], Group A received top priority in economic planning and allocation so as to industrialize the [[Soviet Union]] from its previous agricultural economy. |
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==The consumer industry and Soviet economic development== |
==The consumer industry and Soviet economic development== |
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Following the [[ |
Following the [[October Revolution|October Revolution of 1917]], the [[economy of the Soviet Union]], previously largely agrarian, was rapidly [[Industrialisation|industrialized]]. From 1928 to 1991 the entire course of the economy was guided by a series of ambitious [[Five-year plans of the Soviet Union|five-year plans]] (see [[Economy of the Soviet Union#Planning|Economic planning in the Soviet Union]]). The nation was among the world's three top manufacturers of a large number of basic and heavy industrial products, but it tended to lag behind in the output of light industrial production and consumer durables. One result of this was that consumer demand was only partially satisfied. |
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==Consumer goods in the early Stalin years (1930s)== |
==Consumer goods in the early Stalin years (1930s)== |
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===Introduction of consumer goods=== |
===Introduction of consumer goods=== |
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The 1930s saw major changes in the supply and distribution of consumer goods in the [[Soviet Union]]. The [[first five-year plan]] focused on the [[Industrialization in the Soviet Union|industrialization of the country]] and the production of industrial goods. After the successful industrialization drive in the first five-year plan, the government turned its focus to improving the lives of its citizens. The introduction of the |
The 1930s saw major changes in the supply and distribution of consumer goods in the [[Soviet Union]]. The [[First five-year plan (Soviet Union)|first five-year plan]] focused on the [[Industrialization in the Soviet Union|industrialization of the country]] and the production of industrial goods. After the successful industrialization drive in the first five-year plan, the government turned its focus to improving the lives of its citizens. The introduction of the second five-year plan in 1933 attempted to accomplish this by shifting the focus of production exclusively from industrial goods to include the production of some consumer goods. The [[17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks)|Party Congress of February 1934]] bolstered the calls for improvement of both quantity and quality in food products and other consumer goods. These changes led [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]] to declare in 1935 that "Life has become more joyous".{{sfn|Gronow|2003|p=43}} |
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To a Soviet consumer, a luxury item was any good with the exception of plain breads, cabbage, potatoes and vodka.{{sfn|Gronow|2003|p=33}} By granting all citizens access to a larger variety of consumer goods, views of consumer goods shifted from representative of the elite, and therefore despised, to being desired by all citizens. This shift in opinion and perception fit into the main [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist–Leninist]] goal of empowering the [[proletariat]]. The Soviet government looked to teach Soviet citizens about Marxist–Leninist ideology along with table manners and discerning taste in food and material goods.{{sfn|Gronow|2003|p=33}} [[Bolsheviks]] were expected to be cultured and mannered. Being able to discuss luxury goods with comrades was an important social skill. |
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The government used consumer items as legitimate awards to honor comrades whose work contributed to the building of [[socialism]].{{sfn| |
The government used consumer items as legitimate awards to honor comrades whose work contributed to the building of [[socialism]].{{sfn|Boym|1994|p=105}} However, the culturalization of society legitimized the formerly despised bourgeois concerns about status and possession, and the practice of giving special goods to a subset of the population also created a new social hierarchy which received special privileges.{{sfn|Boym|1994|p=105}} |
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===Distribution and supply=== |
===Distribution and supply=== |
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In the early 1930s, the closed distribution system was the primary method of consumer goods distribution. By 1933, two thirds of Moscow's population and 58 percent of Leningrad's population were served by these stores.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=56}} The closed distribution system consisted of stores and cafeterias accessible only to workers registered at that enterprise.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=56}} These centers distributed [[Rationing in the Soviet Union|rationed goods]]. The system was set up to protect the workers from the worst effects of limited supply and shortages. It also linked the rationing system with employment. |
In the early 1930s, the closed distribution system was the primary method of consumer goods distribution. By 1933, two thirds of Moscow's population and 58 percent of Leningrad's population were served by these stores.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=56}} The closed distribution system consisted of stores and cafeterias accessible only to workers registered at that enterprise.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=56}} These centers distributed [[Rationing in the Soviet Union|rationed goods]]. The system was set up to protect the workers from the worst effects of limited supply and shortages. It also linked the rationing system with employment. |
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Rationing was regarded as the default option during this time period. Rationing happened during the first half of the 1930s, between 1929 and 1935, and after a brief pause began again in the 1940s, between 1941 and 1947. The State was in charge of declaring rationing periods but local officials also had the power to declare others between these. The closed system quickly became a method of giving special privileges to loyal Stalin followers and the Stalinist elite. Some stores became places that distributed higher quality goods to certain categories of more privileged citizens. Most of these closed distribution stores had low prices, long lines, and limited supply regardless of the rationing policies.{{cn|date=September 2019}} |
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At the same time, there were three other legal alternatives to closed distribution stores: commercial stores, [[Torgsin]] stores and [[Kolkhoz]] markets. All had higher prices than the closed distribution stores. Since the state controlled all of these distribution methods, it could exercise a distribution monopoly.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=57}} |
At the same time, there were three other legal alternatives to closed distribution stores: commercial stores, [[Torgsin]] stores and [[Kolkhoz]] markets. All had higher prices than the closed distribution stores. Since the state controlled all of these distribution methods, it could exercise a distribution monopoly.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=57}} |
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The first five-year plan caused the closure of all artisan methods of consumer goods production, such as small private factories and workshops. In the mid-1930s, these methods of production were allowed to return on a small scale.{{sfn|Gronow|2003|p=67}} In May 1936, a law was passed that slightly improved the supply of consumer goods by legalizing individual practice of trades such as cobbling, cabinetmaking, carpentry, dressmaking, hairdressing, laundering, locksmithing, photography, plumbing, tailoring, and upholstery – it slightly improved the shortage of consumer goods. Artisanal activity related to food was still banned. Kolkhoz markets were set up for artisans and peasants to sell their homemade goods. The State regulated the amount of participation in these markets but prices were allowed to float.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=57}} This floating caused the prices at these markets to normally be higher than prices in the closed distribution stores. Individual service was illegal until May 1936. |
The first five-year plan caused the closure of all artisan methods of consumer goods production, such as small private factories and workshops. In the mid-1930s, these methods of production were allowed to return on a small scale.{{sfn|Gronow|2003|p=67}} In May 1936, a law was passed that slightly improved the supply of consumer goods by legalizing individual practice of trades such as cobbling, cabinetmaking, carpentry, dressmaking, hairdressing, laundering, locksmithing, photography, plumbing, tailoring, and upholstery – it slightly improved the shortage of consumer goods. Artisanal activity related to food was still banned. Kolkhoz markets were set up for artisans and peasants to sell their homemade goods. The State regulated the amount of participation in these markets but prices were allowed to float.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=57}} This floating caused the prices at these markets to normally be higher than prices in the closed distribution stores. Individual service was illegal until May 1936. |
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The State also set up Torgsin stores that sold scarce goods in exchange for foreign currency, gold, silver, and other valuables. The purpose of these stores was to expand Soviet [[hard currency reserves]] so that the country could import more equipment for the industrialization drive. Since these goods were scarce, consumers viewed them as treasure and selling them was a huge sacrifice. Prices were kept low to entice people to participate in the Torgsin stores.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=58}} These stores ran from 1930 to 1936. |
The State also set up Torgsin stores that sold scarce goods in exchange for foreign currency, gold, silver, and other valuables. The purpose of these stores was to expand Soviet [[Foreign exchange reserves|hard currency reserves]] so that the country could import more equipment for the industrialization drive. Since these goods were scarce, consumers viewed them as treasure and selling them was a huge sacrifice. Prices were kept low to entice people to participate in the Torgsin stores.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=58}} These stores ran from 1930 to 1936. |
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From 1929, the State ran commercial stores that functioned outside the rationing system. Goods were sold for higher prices than in the closed distribution stores, two to four times as much.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=57}} The goods sold were regarded as higher quality than goods sold by the closed distribution stores. |
From 1929, the State ran commercial stores that functioned outside the rationing system. Goods were sold for higher prices than in the closed distribution stores, two to four times as much.{{sfn|Fitzpatrick|1999|p=57}} The goods sold were regarded as higher quality than goods sold by the closed distribution stores. |
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The import of foreign goods was extremely limited during the 1930s. The official slogan was "There is much to be learned from the example of the advanced capitalist countries in the field of consumer goods".{{sfn|Gronow|2003|p=71}} Small amounts of foreign goods were imported, studied, and then copied. These Soviet versions of foreign consumer goods were distributed through consumption channels. The State did not directly import large quantities of consumer goods. |
The import of foreign goods was extremely limited during the 1930s. The official slogan was "There is much to be learned from the example of the advanced capitalist countries in the field of consumer goods".{{sfn|Gronow|2003|p=71}} Small amounts of foreign goods were imported, studied, and then copied. These Soviet versions of foreign consumer goods were distributed through consumption channels. The State did not directly import large quantities of consumer goods. |
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During the [[ |
During the [[Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact|Molotov–Ribbentrop pact]] period (1939–41), the Soviet citizens' primary interaction with the outside world was with the newly occupied borderlands of Finland, the Baltic States, Bessarabia, and Poland.{{sfn|Johnston|2011|p=34}} Goods considered scarce in the USSR such as watches, bicycles, clothes and food products were plentiful in these regions. The occupying [[Red Army]] was fascinated with the diversity of goods at low prices. Viewed as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire them, soldiers bought large quantities of these goods to send back to their families in the USSR.{{sfn|Johnston|2011|p=35}} This flow of goods inspired civilians to seek permission to travel to these areas to acquire the goods and sell them on the black market.{{sfn|Johnston|2011|p=35}} |
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==1959 American National Exhibition== |
==1959 American National Exhibition== |
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In the summer of 1959 the [[American National Exhibition]] was held at [[Sokolniki Park]] in [[Moscow]]. The |
In the summer of 1959 the [[American National Exhibition]] was held at [[Sokolniki Park]] in [[Moscow]]. The American National Exhibition was sponsored by the American government and featured many displays of the latest "home appliances, fashions, television and [[High fidelity|hi-fi]] sets, a [[Show house|model house]] priced to sell [to] an 'average' family, [[Agricultural machinery|farm equipment]], 1959 automobiles, boats, sporting equipment and a children’s playground."<ref>"The Russian People Can Take a Peek at U.S. Civilization." ''Saturday Evening Post,'' August 1, 1959.</ref> |
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==Consumer goods in the 1980s== |
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Although there was an effort to emphasize public over private consumption in the Soviet Union, nevertheless households earned incomes that they could use for the purchase of consumer goods or for [[savings]]. If households were unable to convert income into goods, a variety of incentives could arise. For example, in the event of excess demand for consumer goods, one would expect households to react by working less or accumulating savings or both. From the planners' viewpoint, it was necessary to balance the output of consumer goods and services with the population's income.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} |
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Soviet planners fought a constant battle for the consumer goods balance throughout the Soviet era. After [[World War II]], they kept wages under better control, and increased the output of consumer goods. By the end of the Soviet era, however, they were plagued by what they perceived as a substantial and growing [[monetary overhang]], which took the form of supply shortages.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} |
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After the industrial stagnation in the 1970s and early 1980s (''see'' [[Economy of the Soviet Union#Economic development|Soviet economic development]]), planners expected that consumer industries would assume a more prominent role in Soviet production beginning with the [[Twelfth Five-Year Plan (Soviet Union)|Twelfth Five-Year Plan]]. But despite a greater emphasis on [[light industry]] and efforts to restructure the entire planning and production systems, even by 1989 very little upturn was visible in any sector of industry. High [[production quota]]s, particularly for some heavy industries, appeared increasingly unrealistic by the end of that plan. Although most Soviet officials agreed that ''[[perestroika]]'' was necessary and overdue, reforming the intricate industrial system had proved difficult.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} |
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==The processes and goals of consumer production== |
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Increased availability of consumer goods was an important goal of ''perestroika''. A premise of that program was that workers would raise their productivity in response to incentive wages only if their money could buy a greater variety of consumer products. This idea arose when the early use of incentive wages did not have the anticipated effect on labor productivity because purchasing power had not improved. According to the theory, all Soviet industry would benefit from diversification from Group A into Group B because incentives would have real meaning. Therefore, the Twelfth Five-Year Plan called for a 5.4% rise in nonfood consumer goods and a 5.4% to 7% rise in consumer services. Both figures were well above rates in the overall economic plan.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} |
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Consumer goods targeted included [[radio]]s, [[television]]s, [[sewing machine]]s, [[washing machine]]s, [[refrigerator]]s, [[paper]], and [[knitting|knitwear]]. The highest quotas were set for the first three categories. Although in 1987 refrigerators, washing machines, televisions, [[tape recorder]]s, and [[furniture]] were the consumer categories making the greatest production gains compared with the previous year, only furniture met its yearly quota. Furthermore, industrial planners had tried to use light industries to raise the industrial contributions of such economic regions as the [[Transcaucasus]] and [[Central Asia]], which had large populations but lacked the raw materials for heavy [[manufacturing]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} |
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==Consumer supply in the 1980s== |
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In the 1980s shortages continued in basic consumer items, even in major population centers. Such goods occasionally [[Rationing in the Soviet Union|were rationed]] in major cities well into the 1980s. Besides the built-in shortages caused by planning priorities, shoddy production of consumer goods limited actual supply. Poor work practices such as ''[[shturmovshchina]]'' were partly to blame for quality problems.{{Citation needed|date=January 2020}} |
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Analyzing shortages in Soviet Union showed very uneven distribution among the population. For example, both Moscow and Leningrad, the two of the country's biggest cities, were supplied much better than the rest of the country and did not have rationing until the late 1980s. Similarly, presence of goods on the shelves in a state store in a minor city often could simply mean that these goods were rationed and could not be bought at will. But in most cases shortages simply meant either empty shelves or long waiting lines. There were also some hidden channels of goods distribution; for example, in many cases goods were directly distributed/sold at places of work totally bypassing the store shelves. {{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} |
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While it was often possible to buy meat, milk and most kinds of produce on farmers' markets ({{lang-ru|колхозный рынок}}), the prices there were typically two to four times higher than in state stores and the availability was highly seasonal. {{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} |
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During the 1980s, the wide availability of consumer electronics products in the West demonstrated a new phase of the Soviet Union's inability to compete, especially because Soviet consumers were becoming more aware of what they were missing. In the mid-1980s, up to 70% of the televisions manufactured by Ekran, a major household [[electronics]] manufacturer, were rejected by quality control inspection. {{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} The television industry received special attention, and a strong drive for quality control was a response to published figures of very high rates of breakdown and repair.{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} To improve the industry, a major cooperative color television venture was planned for the [[Unitra#List_of_associated_manufactures|Warsaw Television Plant]] in 1989. {{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} |
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Western specialists {{Who?|date=November 2019}} regarded the quality of goods available to be poor when judged by their standards and by the end of the 1980s, shortages became worse. By the time of the Soviet Union's collapse at the end of 1991, nearly every kind of food was rationed{{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}. Non-rationed foods and non-food consumer goods had virtually disappeared from state owned stores {{Citation needed|date=November 2019}}. While the gap was partially filled by non-state stores which started to appear in the mid-1980s, the prices in non-state stores were often five to ten times higher than in state stores and were often out of reach for the general population. {{Citation needed|date=November 2019}} |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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*[[Economy of the Soviet Union]] |
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*[[Ministry of Light Industry]] |
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*[[Shortage economy]] |
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*[[Russian fashion|Soviet fashion design]] |
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== References == |
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* {{cite book|last=Boym|first=Svetlana|title=Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia|year=1994|publisher=Harvard University|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=978-0674146259}} |
* {{cite book|last=Boym|first=Svetlana|title=Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia|year=1994|publisher=Harvard University|location=Cambridge, Mass.|isbn=978-0674146259}} |
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* {{cite book|last=Johnston|first=Timothy|title=Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin 1939-1953|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199604036}} |
* {{cite book|last=Johnston|first=Timothy|title=Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin 1939-1953|year=2011|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|isbn=978-0199604036}} |
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Consumer goods in the Soviet Union were usually produced by a two-category industry. Group A was "heavy industry", which included all goods that serve as an input required for the production of some other, final good. Group B was "consumer goods", final goods used for consumption, which included food, clothing and shoes, housing, and such heavy-industry products as appliances and fuels that are used by individual consumers. From the early days of the Stalin era, Group A received top priority in economic planning and allocation so as to industrialize the Soviet Union from its previous agricultural economy.
The consumer industry and Soviet economic development
[edit]Following the October Revolution of 1917, the economy of the Soviet Union, previously largely agrarian, was rapidly industrialized. From 1928 to 1991 the entire course of the economy was guided by a series of ambitious five-year plans (see Economic planning in the Soviet Union). The nation was among the world's three top manufacturers of a large number of basic and heavy industrial products, but it tended to lag behind in the output of light industrial production and consumer durables. One result of this was that consumer demand was only partially satisfied.
Consumer goods in the early Stalin years (1930s)
[edit]Introduction of consumer goods
[edit]The 1930s saw major changes in the supply and distribution of consumer goods in the Soviet Union. The first five-year plan focused on the industrialization of the country and the production of industrial goods. After the successful industrialization drive in the first five-year plan, the government turned its focus to improving the lives of its citizens. The introduction of the second five-year plan in 1933 attempted to accomplish this by shifting the focus of production exclusively from industrial goods to include the production of some consumer goods. The Party Congress of February 1934 bolstered the calls for improvement of both quantity and quality in food products and other consumer goods. These changes led Stalin to declare in 1935 that "Life has become more joyous".[1]
To a Soviet consumer, a luxury item was any good with the exception of plain breads, cabbage, potatoes and vodka.[2] By granting all citizens access to a larger variety of consumer goods, views of consumer goods shifted from representative of the elite, and therefore despised, to being desired by all citizens. This shift in opinion and perception fit into the main Marxist–Leninist goal of empowering the proletariat. The Soviet government looked to teach Soviet citizens about Marxist–Leninist ideology along with table manners and discerning taste in food and material goods.[2] Bolsheviks were expected to be cultured and mannered. Being able to discuss luxury goods with comrades was an important social skill.
The government used consumer items as legitimate awards to honor comrades whose work contributed to the building of socialism.[3] However, the culturalization of society legitimized the formerly despised bourgeois concerns about status and possession, and the practice of giving special goods to a subset of the population also created a new social hierarchy which received special privileges.[3]
Distribution and supply
[edit]In the early 1930s, the closed distribution system was the primary method of consumer goods distribution. By 1933, two thirds of Moscow's population and 58 percent of Leningrad's population were served by these stores.[4] The closed distribution system consisted of stores and cafeterias accessible only to workers registered at that enterprise.[4] These centers distributed rationed goods. The system was set up to protect the workers from the worst effects of limited supply and shortages. It also linked the rationing system with employment.
At the same time, there were three other legal alternatives to closed distribution stores: commercial stores, Torgsin stores and Kolkhoz markets. All had higher prices than the closed distribution stores. Since the state controlled all of these distribution methods, it could exercise a distribution monopoly.[5]
The first five-year plan caused the closure of all artisan methods of consumer goods production, such as small private factories and workshops. In the mid-1930s, these methods of production were allowed to return on a small scale.[6] In May 1936, a law was passed that slightly improved the supply of consumer goods by legalizing individual practice of trades such as cobbling, cabinetmaking, carpentry, dressmaking, hairdressing, laundering, locksmithing, photography, plumbing, tailoring, and upholstery – it slightly improved the shortage of consumer goods. Artisanal activity related to food was still banned. Kolkhoz markets were set up for artisans and peasants to sell their homemade goods. The State regulated the amount of participation in these markets but prices were allowed to float.[5] This floating caused the prices at these markets to normally be higher than prices in the closed distribution stores. Individual service was illegal until May 1936.
The State also set up Torgsin stores that sold scarce goods in exchange for foreign currency, gold, silver, and other valuables. The purpose of these stores was to expand Soviet hard currency reserves so that the country could import more equipment for the industrialization drive. Since these goods were scarce, consumers viewed them as treasure and selling them was a huge sacrifice. Prices were kept low to entice people to participate in the Torgsin stores.[7] These stores ran from 1930 to 1936.
From 1929, the State ran commercial stores that functioned outside the rationing system. Goods were sold for higher prices than in the closed distribution stores, two to four times as much.[5] The goods sold were regarded as higher quality than goods sold by the closed distribution stores.
At the end of 1933, the first department store, called the Central Department Store, opened in Moscow. It ran until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 as part of the commercial store network. The end of the first rationing period and the abolition of the closed distribution system in 1935 caused the commercial store network to expand. In January 1935, there were five department stores open in the USSR. A year later, fifteen more department stores had opened.[8]
Foreign influence
[edit]The import of foreign goods was extremely limited during the 1930s. The official slogan was "There is much to be learned from the example of the advanced capitalist countries in the field of consumer goods".[9] Small amounts of foreign goods were imported, studied, and then copied. These Soviet versions of foreign consumer goods were distributed through consumption channels. The State did not directly import large quantities of consumer goods.
During the Molotov–Ribbentrop pact period (1939–41), the Soviet citizens' primary interaction with the outside world was with the newly occupied borderlands of Finland, the Baltic States, Bessarabia, and Poland.[10] Goods considered scarce in the USSR such as watches, bicycles, clothes and food products were plentiful in these regions. The occupying Red Army was fascinated with the diversity of goods at low prices. Viewed as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to acquire them, soldiers bought large quantities of these goods to send back to their families in the USSR.[11] This flow of goods inspired civilians to seek permission to travel to these areas to acquire the goods and sell them on the black market.[11]
1959 American National Exhibition
[edit]In the summer of 1959 the American National Exhibition was held at Sokolniki Park in Moscow. The American National Exhibition was sponsored by the American government and featured many displays of the latest "home appliances, fashions, television and hi-fi sets, a model house priced to sell [to] an 'average' family, farm equipment, 1959 automobiles, boats, sporting equipment and a children’s playground."[12]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gronow 2003, p. 43.
- ^ a b Gronow 2003, p. 33.
- ^ a b Boym 1994, p. 105.
- ^ a b Fitzpatrick 1999, p. 56.
- ^ a b c Fitzpatrick 1999, p. 57.
- ^ Gronow 2003, p. 67.
- ^ Fitzpatrick 1999, p. 58.
- ^ Gronow 2003, p. 87.
- ^ Gronow 2003, p. 71.
- ^ Johnston 2011, p. 34.
- ^ a b Johnston 2011, p. 35.
- ^ "The Russian People Can Take a Peek at U.S. Civilization." Saturday Evening Post, August 1, 1959.
Bibliography
[edit]- Gronow, Jukka (2003). Caviar with Champagne: Common Luxury and the Ideals of the Good Life in Stalin's Russia. Oxford: Berg. ISBN 978-1859736388.
- Fitzpatrick, Sheila (1999). Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary times : Soviet Russia in the 1930s. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0195050004.
- Boym, Svetlana (1994). Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University. ISBN 978-0674146259.
- Johnston, Timothy (2011). Being Soviet: Identity, Rumour, and Everyday Life under Stalin 1939-1953. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199604036.
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