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Since 1989 Panorama of Russia has specialized in academic and reference publications from the Russian Federation and the Commonwealth of Independent States.
[ Meshochniks and the dictatorship in Russia : 1917-1921]
St. Petersburg: Aleteiia, 2007 373 p. [22 ill.] Serie: Leviafan: Gosudarstvo. Obshchestvo. Lichnost` Hardcover. 14 x 21 cm ISBN: 9785903354825 Language: Russian
Every time the political and economic systems of Russia happened to fall into crisis, the population should have taken the supply and distribution of goods into their own hands to replace the broken institutions and networks responsible for these functions. People, who personally bought, moved and sold the goods of the first necessity, are called Meshochniks, and such a system of supplies - meshochnichestvo. This book is about the history meshochnichestvo as the opposition to food dictatorship in the first four years after the revolution of 1917.
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