Dreaming of the West: The power of the brand in Soviet Lithuania, 1960s–1980s

Brigita Tranavičiūtė

Business History, 2020, vol. 62, issue 1, 179-195

Abstract: The article reveals the interest in foreign trademarks observed in Lithuanian society from the 1960s through the 1980s, when the demand for brand names spread after Western culture reached the Soviet Union. The consumption of Western cultural products, or imitations thereof, became one of the key symbolic expressions of freedom in Soviet society. In Lithuania, the most popular clothes were those bearing fake trademarks, even though Soviet authorities attempted to prevent the desire for and the wearing of these garments through the use of ideological tools.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2017.1379505

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