Communism unwrapped
| Titel: | Communism unwrapped : consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe / ed. by Paulina Bren, Mary Neuburger |
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| Beteiligt: | ; |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 |
| Umfang: | IX, 413 Seiten : Illustrationen, Diagramme ; 24x16x3 cm |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| ISBN: | 9780199827671 ; 9780199827657 ; 0199827656 |
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Inhaltsverzeichnis
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X
- Acknowledgments
- p. xi
- Contributors
- p. xiii
- Introduction
- p. 3
- Part I
- Living Large
- 1
- Tuzex and the Hustler: Living It Up in Czechoslovakia
- p. 27
- 2
- Utopia Gone Terribly Right: Plutonium's "Gated Communities" in the Soviet Union and United States
- p. 49
- 3
- "Knife in the Water": The Struggle over Collective Consumption in Urbanizing Poland
- p. 68
- Part II
- Quality Control
- 4
- The Taste of Smoke: Bulgartabak and the Manufacturing of Cigarettes and Satisfaction
- p. 91
- 5
- Risky Business: What Was Really Being Sold in the Department Stores of Socialist Eastern Europe?
- p. 116
- 6
- Material Harmony: The Quest for Quality in Socialist Bulgaria, 1960s-1980s
- p. 140
- Part III
- Kitchen Talk
- 7
- Eating Up Yugoslavia: Cookbooks and Consumption in Socialist Yugoslavia
- p. 169
- 8
- Grounds for Discontent? Coffee from the Black Market to the Kaffeeklatsch in the GDR
- p. 197
- 9
- From Black Caviar to Blackouts: Gender, Consumption, and Lifestyle in Ceausescu's Romania
- p. 226
- Part IV
- To Market, to Market...
- 10
- The Socialist Clearinghouse: Alcohol, Reputation, and Gender in Romania's Second Economy
- p. 255
- 11
- The Extraordinary Career of Feketevágó Úr: Wood Theft, Pig Killing, and Enterpreneurship in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956
- p. 277
- 12
- Keeping It Close to Home: Resourcefulness and Scarcity in Late Socialist and Postsocialist Poland
- p. 298
- Part V
- Constructive Criticism
- 13
- Kids, Cars, or Cashews? Debating and Remembering Consumption in Socialist Hungary
- p. 325
- 14
- The House That Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption, and Inequality in Postwar Yugoslavia
- p. 351
- 15
- Shop Around the Bloc: Trader Tourism and Its Discontents on the East German-Polish Border
- p. 374
- Index
- p. 393
