Cigarettes and Soviets : smoking in the USSR / Tricia Starks

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Starks, Tricia, 1969- author.

Series:

NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smoking--Soviet Union--History.

Smoking.

Soviets (People)--Tobacco use--History.

Soviets (People).

Cigarettes--Soviet Union--History.

Cigarettes.

Tobacco--Soviet Union--History.

Tobacco.

Tobacco industry--Soviet Union--History.

Tobacco industry.

Tobacco use--Soviet Union--History.

Tobacco use.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ( xv, 302 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Cigarettes and Soviets

Place of Publication:

Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 3, 2023).

ISBN:

9781501785580

1501785583

9781501765759

1501765752