Enterprise and Society Advance Access originally published online on January 4, 2006
Enterprise and Society 2006 7(1):189-191; doi:10.1093/es/khj018
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Published by Oxford University Press 2006.
Julie Hessler. A Social History of Soviet Trade: Trade Policy, Retail Practices, and Consumption, 19171953. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2004. xvi + 366 pp. ISBN 0-691-11492-7, $39.50.
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Julie Hesslers work is the first comprehensive history of the first thirty-five years of Soviet trade written after the opening of the Soviet Unions archives following that nations collapse. It will, without doubt, become a standard work of reference. Hessler gives due credit to the Soviet historian G. A. Dikhtiars three-volume work on Russian and Soviet trade published in the 1960s (in Russian). Despite the books obvious ideological overtones, it deserves to be read alongside Hesslers work. Hesslers
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