Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Consumer sovereignty" in English language version.
The 'trial of the Central Statistical Office' in Poland in February 1948, which became the harbinger of Stalinization, featured accusations that the non-Communist Party staff in that office accepted the primacy of consumption. To the Communists this seemed, at the time, an unpardonable transgression, and the 'trial' - held in the form of a two-day public debate - resulted in a wholesale reorganization of the Central Statistical Office and the removal of the offending staff members.
