The Many Flavors of Socialism: Modernity and Tradition in Late Soviet Food Culture, 1965-1985
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

The first to provide an extensive exploration of late Soviet food culture, this dissertation focuses on the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic ("Soviet Russia") during and immediately after General Secretary L. I. Brezhnev's tenure (1964-82). Here, the food sphere served as an important site for state-society interaction, ideological contestation, and building national and gender identities. Utilizing cooking advice literature, periodicals, memoirs, films, and the archival records of s