Value of Goods During the Period of Russian Economic Transit Based on Barter Ads Analysis

Abstract

The study proposes a method for modeling consumer perceptions of citizens during the late Soviet period and early 1990s based on newspaper ads for direct exchange of goods. The toolkit of social network analysis is used for modeling. To determine the range of status goods and the economic behavior features of citizens moving from the era of shortage to the era of market relations is possible thanks to created semantic networks.