Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal. 2021. № 4 (40). P. 1—9
HISTORICAL SCIENCES
UDC 94(470.56)“1922/1927”
Belousova Alla Aleksandrovna, Postgraduate student
Orenburg State Pedagogical University
ORENBURG TRADE ENTERPRISE “KNIGA” AS AN INSTRUMENT OF STATE MONOPOLIZATION OF THE BOOK TRADE IN THE ORENBURG PROVINCE (1922—1927)
Abstract
The article considers the activity of the Orenburg trade enterprise “Kniga” in the context of the all-Russia tendencies characteristic of the first years of Soviet power. The paper provides information on the sale of book products through the stores of the enterprise and the amount of profit. It is concluded that the profitability of the “Kniga” enterprise and its protection from competition were provided by departmental affiliation to the department of public education of the Orenburg provincial executive committee. As a result, a small book company managed to turn into a book-selling monopoly on the scale of the province. In the second half of the 1920s, with a change in the economic course aimed at curtailing commodity-money relations, commercial enterprises like “Kniga” no longer fit into the model of the country’s economic and political development.
Key words
State, book, book production, monopolization, Orenburg, trade enterprise.
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Belousova A. A. Orenburg trade enterprise “Kniga” as an instrument of state monopolization of the book trade in the Orenburg province (1922—1927). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2021, no. 4 (40), pp. 1—9. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2021.40.1.