Communism Unwrapped Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

Name: Communism Unwrapped Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
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ISBN: 9780199827671

ISBN-10: 0199827672

ISBN-13: 9780199827671

Edition: 2012

Authors: Paulina Bren, Mary Neuburger

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Communism Unwrapped is a collection of essays that unwraps the complex world of consumption under communism in postwar Eastern Europe, featuring new work by both American and European scholars writing from variety of disciplinary perspectives. The result is a fresh look at everyday life under communism that explores the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, exchanged and assessed goods. These phenomena, the editors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived and experienced in its widely varied contexts in the region. Consumption pervaded everyday life far more than most other political and social phenomena. From design, to production, to retail sales and…

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List price: $53.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 6.34" wide x 9.21" long x 1.11" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Contributors


Introduction




Living Large



Tuzex and the Hustler: Living It Up in Czechoslovakia




Utopia Gone Terribly Right: Plutonium's "Gated Communities" in the Soviet Union and United States




"Knife in the Water": The Struggle over Collective Consumption in Urbanizing Poland




Quality Control



The Taste of Smoke: Bulgartabak and the Manufacturing of Cigarettes and Satisfaction




Risky Business: What Was Really Being Sold in the Department Stores of Socialist Eastern Europe?




Material Harmony: The Quest for Quality in Socialist Bulgaria, 1960s-1980s




Kitchen Talk



Eating Up Yugoslavia: Cookbooks and Consumption in Socialist Yugoslavia




Grounds for Discontent? Coffee from the Black Market to the Kaffeeklatsch in the GDR




From Black Caviar to Blackouts: Gender, Consumption, and Lifestyle in Ceausescu's Romania




To Market, to Market...



The Socialist Clearinghouse: Alcohol, Reputation, and Gender in Romania's Second Economy




The Extraordinary Career of Feketevï¿½gï¿½ ï¿½r: Wood Theft, Pig Killing, and Enterpreneurship in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956




Keeping It Close to Home: Resourcefulness and Scarcity in Late Socialist and Postsocialist Poland




Constructive Criticism



Kids, Cars, or Cashews? Debating and Remembering Consumption in Socialist Hungary




The House That Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption, and Inequality in Postwar Yugoslavia




Shop Around the Bloc: Trader Tourism and Its Discontents on the East German-Polish Border



Index