Communism Unwrapped (eBook, PDF)

Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
Redaktion: Bren, Paulina; Neuburger, Mary

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Produktbeschreibung

Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived in its widely varied contexts in the region. From design, to production, to retail sales and black market exchange, Communism Unwrapped follows communist goods from producer to consumer, tracing their circuitous routes. In the communist world this journey was rife with its own meanings, shaped by the special political and social circumstances of these societies. In examining consumption behind the Iron Curtain, this volume brings dimension and nuance to understandings of the communist period and the history of consumerism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199827664
• Artikelnr.: 38141405

Autorenporträt

Paulina Bren is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. Mary Neuburger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Contributors
* Introduction-- Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger
* I. Living Large: Introduction
* 1 Tuzex and the Hustler: Living It Up in Czechoslovakia- Paulina Bren
* 2 Utopia Gone Terribly Right: Plutonium's "Gated Communities" in the
Soviet Union and the United States- Kate Brown
* 3 "Knife in the Water": Competitive Consumption in Urbanizing Poland-
Kacper Poblocki
* II. Quality Control: Introduction
* 4 The Taste of Smoke: Bulgartabak and the Manufacturing of Cigarettes
and Satisfaction- Mary Neuburger
* 5 Risky Business: What Was Really Being Sold in the Department Stores
of Socialist Eastern Europe?- Patrick Hyder Patterson
* 6 Material Harmony: The Quest for Quality in Socialist Bulgaria,
1960s-1980s- Rossitza Guentcheva
* III. Kitchen Talk: Introduction
* 7 Eating Up Yugoslavia: Cookbooks and Consumption in Socialist
Yugoslavia- Wendy Bracewell
* 8 Grounds for Discontent? Coffee from the Black Market to the
Kaffeeklatsch in the GDR- Katherine Pence
* 9 From Black Caviar to Blackouts: Gender, Consumption, and Lifestyle
in Ceausescu's Romania- Jill Massino
* IV. To Market, To Market... : Introduction
* 10 The "Socialist Bourse": Alcohol, Reputation, and Gender in
Romania's Second Economy during the 1980s- Narcis Tulbure
* 11 The Extraordinary Career of Feketevágo Ur: Wood Theft,
Pig-killing, and Entrepreneurship in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956-
Karl Brown
* 12 Keeping It Close to Home: Resourcefulness and Scarcity in Late
Socialist and Post-Socialist Poland- Malgorzata Mazurek
* V. Constructive Criticism : Introduction
* 13 Kids, Cars, or Cashews?: Debating and Remembering Consumption in
Socialist Hungary- Tamas Dombos and Lena Pellandini-Simanyi
* 14 The House that Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption and Inequality
in Postwar Yugoslavia- Brigitte Le Normand
* 15 Shop Around the Bloc: Trader Tourism and its Discontents on the
East German-Polish Border- Mark Keck-Szajbel
* Index