This study investigates contemporary advertising and social change in the context of the breakdown of state socialism and the expansion of capitalism in contemporary Russia. The focus is on what outdoor advertising communicates about the expansion of capitalism in the emerging capitalist economy in Russia in the 1990s, including recent changes in the Russian economy as it has embraced international capitalism, and also the overall standard of living of the Russian consumer.
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