Socialism’s Low-Price Guarantee: Late Stalinism and the Retail Economy, 1945-1954

Please note the time of this seminar has been changed to 6:30pm

Kristy Ironside is a social and economic historian of the Soviet Union, and currently Lecturer in Russian, East European and Eurasian History at the University of Manchester. 

Her book in progress, The Worker’s Ruble: Money and the Pursuit of Communist Prosperity in the Postwar Soviet Union, 1945-1964, looks at post-war Soviet society’s intertwined attempts to recover from the war’s damage and move toward a promised state of abundance.

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