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Mikhail А. Beznin
Vologda State University
Tatyana M. Dimoni
Vologda State University
Anna S. Stoletova
Vologda State University
Bourgeois tendencies in the social life and mentality of the Soviet society of the 1950s to 80s.
Beznin M.A., Dimoni T.M., Stoletova A.S. Bourgeois tendencies in social life and mentality of the Soviet society of the 1950s to 80s. Vestnik of Kostroma State University, 2020, vol. 26, № 1, pp. 77–86 (In Russ.). DOI 10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-1-77-86
DOI: 10.34216/1998-0817-2020-26-1-77-86
УДК: 94(470)”1950/1980”
Publish date: 2019-12-04
Annotation: The article raises the question of a significant trend in the socio-economic development of post-war Soviet society. As a study of the formation of bourgeois trends, the authors note class restructuring, a change in the organisation of labour, the formation of entrepreneurial skills, including in the sectors of the "ghost" and "shadow" economies, and the desire for a high level of consumption. Among the mechanisms of the formation of bourgeois trends, a significant role was played by the position of the state, which, on the one hand, made efforts to stimulate interest in material security (including through the promotion of advanced workers, the formation of a new consumer culture), and on the other hand, restrained the processes of material differentiation according to ideological concepts of social justice. The article was prepared on the basis of materials from the Russian State Archive of Recent History, the Russian State Archive of Economics: documents from the Communist Party bodies, reviews of law enforcement agencies, letters from citizens, as well as basing on study of the results of sociological surveys of the 1960s and the 1980s. (Some of those were recovered from the former special security service of the Russian State Library). The authors come to the conclusion that by the end of the Soviet period as a result of ongoing processes, ideological cliches about a socially homogeneous society had significantly outlived their usefulness.
Keywords: Russia, Soviet period, bourgeois trends, social evolution.
Funding and acknowledgments: The article was prepared with the financial support of the RSF «Transformation of Russian society in the 1950s-1990s: class Genesis and evolution of the economic system», project No. 19-18-00269
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Author's info: Mikhail A. Beznin, ORCID 0000-0001-5152-796x, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Vologda State University, Vologda. E-mail: beznin@uni-vologda.ac.ru
Co-author's info: Tat'yana M. Dimoni, 0000-0002-9049-1469, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Vologda State University, Vologda. E-mail: dimonitm@yandex.ru
Co-author's info: Anna S. Stoletova, ORCID 0000-0002-2167-072X, Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor, Vologda State University, Vologda. E-mail: Stoletowa-A-S@yandex.ru