Fashion Meets Socialism: Fashion Industry in the Soviet Union after the Second World War
Jukka Gronow and Sergey Zhuravlev
Everyday Soviet life seen through clothing, from the Moscow Fashion House to the GUM department store. A fresh look at consumer culture under Khrushchev and Brezhnev.
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