Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century

Magdalena Eriksroed-Burger is Research Associate at the University of Bamberg, Germany.

Heidi Hein-Kircher is Head of Department at the Herder-Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg, Germany. 

Julia Malitska is Project Researcher at the School of Historical and Contemporary Studies at Södertörn University, Sweden.

Part I: Introduction. Chapter 1: Consuming and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century. Introductory Remarks.- Part II: Rise of Modern Consumption and Advertising before World War II.- Chapter 2: Handmade by Peasants for Metropolitan Consumers. Textiles, Social Entrepreneurship and the Austro-Hungarian Countryside.- Chapter 3: German Advertisements in the Late Russian Empire as a Reflection of Consumer Policies, Culture, and Communication.- Chapter 4: The Role(s) of the Czechoslovak New Woman as a Consumer. The Case of the Women's Magazine Eva (1928-1938).- Part III: "Soviet Style" of Advertising and Consumption.- Chapter 5: Fur Trade in Turmoil. Pelt Commodification in Leipzig from Fin de Siècle to Sovietization.- Chapter 6: Early Soviet Consumption as a First "Battle" on the Cultural Front.- Chapter 7: 'They even gave us pork cutlets for breakfast'. Foreign Tourists and Eating-out Practices in Socialist Romania during the 1960s and the 1980s.- Part IV: Transformations in Socialist Consumer Cultures and Advertisements.- Chapter 8: Socialism Without Future. Consumption as a Marker of Growing Social Difference in 1980s Hungary.- Chapter 9: Eesti Reklaamfilm as a Jack-of-All-Trades. On the Untold Opportunities of a Late Soviet Advertising Bureau.- Chapter 10: Tobacco Product Design, Marketing, and Smoking in the USSR.- Part V: Concluding Comment.- Chapter 11: Concluding and Summarizing Comment.

"Consumption and Advertising in Eastern Europe and Russia in the Twentieth Century is a pioneering volume which enriches an area of study that, as also mentioned in several of the
contributions, remains ripe for further scholarly research." (Antony Hoyte-West, Brukenthalia, brukenthalmuseum.ro, Vol. 18 (13), 2023)