Настольные экономические игры в позднем СССР и освоение практик деловой активности Советскими школьниками
Business board games in the late USSR and the development of business practices among Soviet schoolchildren

Summary/Abstract: The article contains retrospective analysis of the practice of amateur board game "Monopoly" in the late Soviet Union, where entrepreneurial skills were under suspicion. The article demonstrates the social and historical context of the practice of board games in the Soviet Union. Special attention is given to the role of business board games in the inclusion of the money world into the world of games for children and teenagers in the late USSR. Also it refers to the function of economic board games in the development of capitalist skills of rational thinking and practice of accounting. The article includes the review of foreign publications on the topic of business board games, which are often used for sociological experiments. The article is written in the social history and ethnography genre with the elements of the anthropology of money.

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