Kristy Ironside

Biographic Data

ID1435953
NAMEKristy Ironside
GIVEN NAMESKristy
FAMILY NAMEIronside
SIGNATUREIRONSIDE K
AFFILIATIONSMcGill University
ORCID0000-0002-4314-4923
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS4
WORKS AS AUTHOR11
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2014
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Anne O’Donnell. Power and Possession in the Russian Revolution

    Open AccessKristy IronsideARTICLEThe American Historical Review2025

  • The Politics of Breaking Promises Across the Iron Curtain

    Open AccessKristy IronsideARTICLEDiplomatic History2024

    Journal Article The Politics of Breaking Promises Across the Iron Curtain Get access Fritz Bartel. The Triumph of Broken Promises: The End of the Cold War and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2022. 440 pp. $46.00 (hardcover). Kristy Ironside Kristy Ironside [email protected] https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-4923 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, …

  • The Ruble and Russian Autocracy

    Kristy IronsideARTICLECurrent History2023

    In Russia, attempts at liberalizing state finances have long run up against the autocratic desire for control of the money supply

  • Because of Him, We Have Pizza Hut!”

    Kristy IronsideARTICLERussian History2023

    Gorbachev’s 1997 television ad for Pizza Hut, which opened its first restaurants in the Soviet Union in 1990 through a joint venture between parent company PepsiCo, Inc. and the Moscow city soviet, is an important part of his popular image in the West, reflecting the role that capitalist consumerism is often presumed to have played in the Soviet system’s collapse. Yet, as this article shows, such joint ventures were supposed to increase the Sovie…

  • Constructing the average worker’s family budget after Stalin

    Kristy IronsideARTICLECahiers du monde russe2023

    The article looks at published “average” family budget studies in the Khrushchev era following the February 1956 Twentieth Party Congress and the Soviet government’s pledge to more fully meet the population’s material needs. Despite being portrayed as objective reflections of reality, harnessing the expert authority of statisticians and the power of numbers, as this article shows, these studies in fact featured highly idealized constructions of f…

  • H assan M alik . Bankers and Bolsheviks

    Open AccessKristy IronsideARTICLEThe American Historical Review2022

    The Bolsheviks’ 1918 decision to repudiate foreign debts contracted by the Tsarist and Provisional governments is often held up as one of their most audacious acts as Russia’s new communist rulers. Yet as Hassan Malik so convincingly demonstrates, this event has a much longer history and must be situated in the larger global financial context that allowed Russia to become one of the largest net borrowers in the world, setting the stage for catast…

  • The Art of the Bribe

    Kristy IronsideARTICLEThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review2018

  • I Beg You Not to Reject My Plea”

    Open AccessKristy IronsideARTICLEJournal of Social History2018

    Journal Article "I Beg You Not to Reject My Plea": The Late Stalinist Welfare State and the Politics of One-Time Monetary Aid, 1946–1953 Get access Kristy Ironside Kristy Ironside Address correspondence to Kristy Ironside, Department of History and Classical Studies, Leacock Building, 7th floor, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T7 Canada. Email: [email protected]. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4314-4923 Search for other wor…

  • Between Fiscal, Ideological, and Social Dilemmas

    Kristy IronsideARTICLEEurope Asia Studies2017Cited by: 2References: 5

    This article examines the ‘tax on bachelors, singles, and small families of the USSR’. The tax was introduced in 1941 to boost the birth rate and expanded in 1944 to finance the state’s benefits offered to mothers and children. The Ministry of Finance eventually moved away from its support for the regressive and inefficient bachelor tax and explored other tax-based strategies to boost the birth rate and support families. However, it was constrain…

  • Stalin's Doctrine of Price Reductions during the Second World War and Postwar Reconstruction

    Open AccessKristy IronsideARTICLESlavic Review2016Cited by: 1

    This article examines how price reductions became a late Stalinist economic doctrine. When rationing was abolished in 1935, Stalin linked reducing retail prices to economic and revolutionary progress. This progress was derailed by the war, which saw the return of rationing and its accompanying price distortions, as well as the explosion of private trade at exorbitant market prices. Aft er an unsuccessful attempt to compete with the market through…

  • Khrushchev’s Cash-and-Goods Lotteries and the Turn Toward Positive Incentives

    Kristy IronsideARTICLEThe Soviet and Post-Soviet Review2014Cited by: 1References: 1

    This article focuses on the Soviet government’s turn to positive incentives to play the state lottery in the late 1950s, after thirty years of coercing citizens to buy state lottery bonds under Stalin. Khrushchev discontinued the Stalinist bonds in April 1957 and, in their wake, introduced “cash-and-goods lotteries” featuring voluntary participation. The Khrushchev government identified a powerful positive incentive to buy tickets in the coveted …