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Communism Unwrapped
Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
Taschenbuch von Paulina Bren (u. a.)
Sprache: Englisch

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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.
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.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199827671
ISBN-10: 0199827672
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Bren, Paulina
Neuburger, Mary
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Paulina Bren (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2012
Gewicht: 0,728 kg
Artikel-ID: 120667070
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • 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

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780199827671
ISBN-10: 0199827672
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion: Bren, Paulina
Neuburger, Mary
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Paulina Bren (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.09.2012
Gewicht: 0,728 kg
Artikel-ID: 120667070
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