CONSUMPTION OF THE POPULATION AND PUBLIC CATERING IN THE SOVIET RUSSIA IN THE CONDITIONS OF MILITARY COMMUNISM, THE NEW ECONOMIC POLICY AND INDUSTRIALIZATION

• Main Author: Dmitrii V Ilyyushchenko
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2014-12-01
• Series: RUDN Journal of Public Administration
• Subjects: the soviet union; the 1920th - the 1930th years; public catering; the organization of public consumption
• Online Access: http://journals.rudn.ru/public-administration/article/viewFile/6608/6061
• ISSN: 2312-8313; 2411-1228

In article the main milestones and indicators of development of public catering in the USSR in the 1920th - are considered the 1930th years, basic provisions of a state policy in this direction, and also reaction of society to the social organization of consumption are analyzed. The attention is focused that in the conditions of transition from civil war to the world, from «military communism» to new economic policy, taking into account realization in practice of Marxist ideas about creation «new socialist» societies, were subject to the state control not only the industry, trade or agricultural production, but also consumption which became business «nation-wide». The analysis of documentary material gave the chance to the author to answer a number of the important questions connected with a problem of evolution of various aspects of life of society in the conditions of a social reorganization of a social pyramid.