Formation of the Socialist Service Culture in Soviet Public Canteens in Leningrad in the 1930s

Student: Tkachenko Daria

Educational Programme: History (Bachelor)

Year of Graduation: 2021

In the 1930s development of the catering system was a crucial part of Soviet policy in socio-economic and ideological spheres. This work examines the soviet catering system to analyse the phenomenon of service in socialist society. The main question raised in the research is how was the socialist service system functioned, transformed, and rhetorically rethought in a soviet society of the 1930s? This research uses the approach of social history, while examining the dynamics of change of social reality through the case of Leningrad canteens.

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