Competition in socialist society
| Titel: | Competition in socialist society / ed. by Katalin Miklóssy ... |
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| Beteiligt: | |
| Ausgabe: | 1. publ. |
| Veröffentlicht: | New York, NY [u.a.] : Routledge, 2014 |
| Umfang: | XVI, 209 Seiten : Illustrationen |
| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 19 |
| RVK-Notation: | |
| ISBN: | 9780415747202 ; 9781315797175 |
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- List of illustrations
- p. ix
- Acknowledgements
- p. x
- Notes on contributors
- p. xii
- List of abbreviations
- p. xv
- Introduction: Competition in state socialism
- p. 1
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- 'To catch up and overtake' the west: Soviet discourse on socialist competition
- p. 10
- 2
- Optimal planning, optimal economy, optimal life? The Kosygin reforms, 1965-72
- p. 23
- 3
- More efficiency via democracy: debates over reforming the GDR
- p. 41
- 4
- The Kirov fishing Kolkhoz: a socialist success story
- p. 53
- 5
- Selling fashion to the Soviets: competitive practices in Polish clothes export in the early 1960
- p. 71
- 6
- Hotel Intercontinental in Bucharest: competitive advantage for the socialist tourist industry in Romania
- p. 89
- 7
- Competing for popularity: Song contests and interactive television in communist Hungary
- p. 107
- 8
- The World Youth Festival as an arena of the 'cultural Olympics': meaning of competition in Soviet culture in the 1940s and 1950s
- p. 125
- 9
- Mole holes in the Iron Curtain: the success story of the Krtek animated films
- p. 142
- 10
- Women and competition in state socialist societies: Soviet beauty contests
- p. 159
- 11
- Concluding remarks: typology and consequences of competition
- p. 176
- Bibliography
- p. 189
- Index
- p. 205
