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Cigarettes and Soviets

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"Although the Soviets inaugurated the first national anti-smoking campaign, for reasons from countering popular discontent to exploiting mass addiction for revenue, production continued and increased. Following the story of Soviet tobacco through production, consumption, resistance, and support, this book complicates narratives of tobacco's rise based on western, capitalist markets"-- Provided by publisher.

Title Cigarettes and Soviets : smoking in the USSR / Tricia Starks
Additional Titles Cigarettes and Soviets
Publisher Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press
Creation Date 2022
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Introduction : The Revolutionary Soviet Smoker -- 1. Attacked : Commissar Semashko and Tobacco Prohibition -- 2. Resurrected : Nationalized Factories and Revitalized Industry -- 3. Sold : Revolutionary Advertising and Communist Consumption -- 4. Treated : Individual Will and Collective Therapy -- 5. Unfulfilled : Commissar Mikoian and Stalinized Production -- 6. Mobilized : Frontline Provision and Factory Evacuations -- 7. Recovered : Women's Kingdoms and Manly Habits -- 8. Partnered : Space Cigarettes and Soviet Marlboros -- 9. Pressured : Demographic Crisis and Popular Discontent -- Epilogue : The Post-Soviet Smoker.
Series NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Extent 1 online resource ( xv, 302 pages) : illustrations
Language English
National Library system number 997012635293005171
MARC RECORDS
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