Vestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philologyVestnik of Samara University. History, pedagogics, philology2542-04452712-8946Samara National Research University1066810.18287/2542-0445-2022-28-3-40-45Research ArticleProblem of shortage of consumer goods in the city of Kuibyshev during the period of perestroikaRazumovN. V.<p>postgraduate student of the Department of Russian History</p>razumov240395@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-9261-1455LeonovM. I.<p>Doctor of Historical Sciences, professor of the Department of Russian History</p>mleonov40@gmail.comhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5573-7681Samara National Research University1410202228340450510202205102022Copyright © 2022, Razumov N.V., Leonov M.I.2022<p>The article deals with the problem of shortage of consumer goods during the period of perestroika. This historical aspect is one of the key aspects in the study of the daily life of Soviet society. The purpose of the study was to determine the causes of the deficit, to analyze methods to overcome it. The article also examines various phenomena of deficit manifestation: queues, coupons, and the black market. To develop these goals, various approaches and methods were used: historical-systemic, historical-genetic, comparative-historical and historical-dynamic, quantitative and others. Analysis of archival historical sources, workers complaints, reports of government and party organizations, materials of historical interviews. As a result, it was found that the deficit had a huge impact on the socio-political climate in the USSR. Its manifestations became an integral part of everyday life, and every year the situation with the supply of goods became worse. Similar questions were raised by historians earlier, they were studied on materials from other regions of the Middle Volga region, however, a comprehensive analysis of the supply situation was not made on materials from the Kuibyshev region. It was also possible to establish the nature of the influence of problems with the supply of consumer goods on everyday life, public opinion, the psychological state of people, to trace the dynamics of their attitude to this problem. The significance of the findings will complement the materials on the problem of the transition of the USSR and Russia to a market economy, as well as on the social processes that took place at the end of the XX century</p>СССРСреднее ПоволжьеКуйбышевповседневностьперестройкадефицитнормированное распределениесоциально-экономическая историяустная историяUSSRMiddle Volga regionKuibysheveveryday lifeperestroikadeficitnormalized distributionsocio-economic historyoral history[Gushchin 2018 – Gushchin A.A. (2018) Public complaints and appeals on living conditions as an element of the Soviet daily life in 1950–1980. University Proceedings. Volga Region. Humanities, no. 1 (45), pp. 78–88. DOI: http://doi.org/10.21685/2072-3024-2018-1-8. EDN: https://elibrary.ru/xwoxyt. (In Russ.)][Deyneka 1999 – Deyneka O.S. (1999) Economic psychology: socio-political problems. Saint Petersburg, 240 p. Available at: http://nozdr.ru/data/media/biblio/edu/ped/Дейнека%20О.С.%20-%20Экономическая%20психология.doc; https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=35309606. EDN: https://elibrary.ru/xudted. (In Russ.)][Zarubina 2006 – Zarubina N.N. (2006) Laugh culture as factor of tolerance towards new social groups in Russian society. Social Sciences and Contemporary World, no. 5, pp. 155–166. Available at: https://mgimo.ru/files/33028/33028.pdf; https://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=9277801. EDN: https://elibrary.ru/hvaroz. (In Russ.)][Nayshul 1991 – Nayshul V.A. (1991). Highest and last stage of socialism. In: Nozhkina T.A. (Ed.) Immersion in a quagmire (anatomy of stagnation). Moscow: Progress, 704 p. Available at: https://libertarium.ru/l_libnaul_brezhnev. (In Russ.)][Nikolaev 2000 – Nikolaev V.G. (2000) Soviet queue as a habitat. Russia and the contemporary world, no. 3 (28), pp. 37–48. Available at: https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=1232826. EDN: https://elibrary.ru/bazlbv. (In Russ.)][Ostapkovich 1998 – Ostapkovich G.S. (1998) On social and economic development of the USSR on the verge of 80–90-ies. Voprosy ekonomiki, no. 7, pp. 153–159. (In Russ.)][Yakupov 2010 – Yakupov R.A. (2010) System of rationed distribution of goods in the regions of the Middle Volga region in the late 1980-ies – early 1990-ies. Molodoi uchenyi, no. 9, pp. 241–247. Available at: https://moluch.ru/archive/20/2024; https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=16366964. EDN: https://elibrary.ru/nuecwd. (In Russ.)]