TY - BOOK ID - 52583813 TI - Women and the birth of Russian capitalism : a history of the shuttle trade AU - Mukhina, Irina AU - Dorr, Yuni PY - 2014 SN - 0875804802 1609091523 9781609091521 1501758152 9781501758157 PB - DeKalb, Illinois : NIU Press, DB - UniCat KW - Capitalism KW - Black market KW - Small business KW - Businesswomen KW - Women merchants KW - History. KW - Soviet Union KW - Commerce KW - History KW - E-books KW - Businesses, Small KW - Medium-sized business KW - Micro-businesses KW - Microbusinesses KW - Microenterprises KW - Small and medium-sized business KW - Small and medium-sized enterprises KW - Small businesses KW - SMEs (Small business) KW - Business KW - Business enterprises KW - Industries KW - Entrepreneurs, Women KW - Women entrepreneurs KW - Women in business KW - Businesspeople KW - Women-owned business enterprises KW - Market women KW - Merchants KW - Size KW - Советский Союз KW - Ber. ha-M. KW - Zwia̦zek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - Szovjetunió KW - TSRS KW - Tarybų Socialistinių Respublikų Sąjunga KW - SRSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Radi︠a︡nsʹkykh Sot︠s︡ialistychnykh Respublik KW - SSSR KW - Soi︠u︡z Sovetskikh Sot︠s︡ialisticheskikh Respublik KW - UdSSR KW - Shūravī KW - Ittiḥād-i Jamāhīr-i Ishtirākīyah-i Shūrāʼīyah KW - Russia (1923- U.S.S.R.) KW - Sovetskiy Soyuz KW - Soyuz SSR KW - Sovetskiĭ Soi︠u︡z KW - Soi︠u︡z SSR KW - Uni Sovjet KW - Union of Soviet Socialist Republics KW - USSR KW - SSṚM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Ṛespublikaneri Miutʻyun KW - SSHM KW - Sovetakan Sotsʻialistakan Hanrapetutʻyunneri Miutʻyun KW - URSS KW - Unión de Repúblicas Socialistas Soviéticas KW - Berit ha-Moʻatsot KW - Rusyah KW - Ittiḥād al-Sūfiyītī KW - Rusiyah KW - Rusland KW - Soṿet-Rusland KW - Uni Soviet KW - Union soviétique KW - Zȯvlȯlt Kholboot Uls KW - Związek Radziecki KW - ESSD KW - Sahaphāp Sōwīat KW - KhSHM KW - SSR Kavširi KW - Russland KW - SNTL KW - PSRS KW - Su-lien KW - Sobhieṭ Ẏuniẏana KW - FSSR KW - Unione Sovietica KW - Ittiḥād-i Shūravī KW - Soviyat Yūniyan KW - Russian S.F.S.R. KW - Market economy KW - Economics KW - Profit KW - Capital KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Radzieckich KW - ZSRR KW - Związek Socjalistycznych Republik Sowieckich KW - ZSRS KW - Russian consumer trade, Russian free market economy, women traders in Russia. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52583813 AB - Little has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s. The term itself seems to suggest something of a rather small scale. Indeed, the amount of each transaction in this trade was miniscule. Individual peddlers traveled to near-abroad with their bulging bags and brought back home for resale only as many goods as they could personally carry in their enormous suitcases. The phenomenon hidden behind the term "shuttle trade" was by no means insignificant or small in scale. By the mid-1990s, it constituted the backbone of Russian consumer trade and was a substantial source of revenue.The primary participants in the shuttle trade were women, and in this enlightening study Mukhina assesses the reasons why women were attracted to this business, the range of the personal experiences of female shuttle traders, and the social impact of women's involvement in this sort of economic activity. By analyzing the social and gendered dimensions of the shuttle trade, the reader can begin to understand more broadly how gender shaped the "transition" period associated with the end of communist regimes in Eastern Europe. Moreover, the difficulties that these women faced highlight the gap between the rhetoric of free market economy and the actual market practices. These women-traders had to create and shape the physical market (an open-air space) for their goods without the basic legislative and other provisions of market economies. The shuttle trade became an avenue of female suffering but also of survival and even empowerment during the time that most Russians now call "the wild 1990s." ER -