Description
Book SynopsisBy the mid-1990s, shuttle trade - a practice in which individual peddlers travel abroad and then return with foreign merchandise in their suitcases for resale-constituted the backbone of Russian consumer trade and was a substantial source of revenue. This book assesses the reasons why women were attracted to this business.
Trade ReviewThis book is a valuable work in the field and fills an existing scientific void on the subject.... The author artfully connects international and national contexts and assesses the links between an economic transformation and a social shift. The book is also a meaningful testimony of an important period of Russian history.
* Europe-Asia Studies *
This volume is an important addition to student reading lists on socioeconomic and political change of the 1980s and 1990s, and on gender studies. It is a most rewarding read.
* The Russian Review *
The book was thoroughly researched and well written and it would be of interest to historians as well as scholars interested in the economic and political transition, migration, and gender.
* Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society *
Mukhina provides a succinct, perceptive history that adds depth to a growing appreciation of how economic and political change can affect the lives of ordinary people-particularly Russian women-in the post-Soviet era.
* Choice *
