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024 7 _a10.1515/9781501758157
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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781501758157
035 _a(DE-B1597)571100
035 _a(OCoLC)1229161218
040 _aDE-B1597
_beng
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050 4 _aHF3626.5
_b.M844 2014
072 7 _aHIS032000
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082 0 4 _a382.082/0947
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMukhina, Irina
_eautore
245 1 0 _aWomen and the Birth of Russian Capitalism :
_bA History of the Shuttle Trade /
_cIrina Mukhina.
264 1 _aIthaca, NY :
_bCornell University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2014
300 _a1 online resource (355 p.)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aNIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tList of Figures, Tables, and Graphs --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tMystery Women: An Introduction --
_t1-Origins of the Shuttle Trade, 1987-91 --
_t2-The "Golden Age" of the Shuttle Trade and Its Structure --
_t3-Women Traders: Success in Numbers --
_t4-The Price of Success --
_t5-Where Did All the Women Go? --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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520 _aLittle has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s. The term itself seems to suggest something of a rather small scale. Indeed, the amount of each transaction in this trade was miniscule. Individual peddlers traveled to near-abroad with their bulging bags and brought back home for resale only as many goods as they could personally carry in their enormous suitcases. The phenomenon hidden behind the term "shuttle trade" was by no means insignificant or small in scale. By the mid-1990s, it constituted the backbone of Russian consumer trade and was a substantial source of revenue.The primary participants in the shuttle trade were women, and in this enlightening study Mukhina assesses the reasons why women were attracted to this business, the range of the personal experiences of female shuttle traders, and the social impact of women's involvement in this sort of economic activity. By analyzing the social and gendered dimensions of the shuttle trade, the reader can begin to understand more broadly how gender shaped the "transition" period associated with the end of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Moreover, the difficulties that these women faced highlight the gap between the rhetoric of free market economy and the actual market practices. These women-traders had to create and shape the physical market (an open-air space) for their goods without the basic legislative and other provisions of market economies. The shuttle trade became an avenue of female suffering but also of survival and even empowerment during the time that most Russians now call "the wild 1990s."  
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
650 0 _aBlack market
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 0 _aBusinesswomen
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 0 _aCapitalism
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 0 _aSmall business
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 0 _aWomen merchants
_zSoviet Union
_xHistory.
650 4 _aHistory.
650 4 _aSoviet & East European History.
650 4 _aWomens Studies.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
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653 _aRussian consumer trade, Russian free market economy, women traders in Russia.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781501758157
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501758157
856 4 2 _3Cover
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