Women and the Birth of Russian CapitalismLittle has been known, acknowledged, or studied about the shuttle trade, one of the major manifestations of new Russian life of the 1990s. The term itself seems to suggest something of a rather small scale. Indeed, the amount of each transaction in this trade was miniscule. Individual peddlers traveled to near abroad with their bulging bags and brought back home for resale only as many goods as they could personally carry in their enormous suitcases.