Format:
XVI, 413 S.
,
Ill.
ISBN:
9780199827671
,
9780199827657
Content:
Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction / Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger -- Living large : introduction -- Tuzex and the hustler : living it up in Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren -- Utopia gone terribly right : plutonium's "gated communities" in the Soviet Union and the United States / Kate Brown -- "Knife in the water" : competitive consumption in urbanizing Poland / Kacper Poblocki -- Quality control : introduction -- The taste of smoke : bulgartabak and the manufacturing of cigarettes and satisfaction / Mary Neuburger -- Risky business : what was really being sold in the department stores of socialist Eastern Europe? / Patrick Hyder Patterson -- Material harmony : the quest for quality in socialist Bulgaria, 1960s-1980s / Rossitza Guentcheva -- Kitchen talk : introduction -- Eating up Yugoslavia : cookbooks and consumption in socialist Yugoslavia / Wendy Bracewell -- Grounds for discontent? : coffee from the black market to the kaffeeklatsch in the GDR / Katherine Pence -- From black caviar to blackouts : gender, consumption, and lifestyle in Ceausescu's Romania / Jill Massino -- To market, to market-- : introduction -- The "socialist bourse" : alcohol, reputation, and gender in Romania's second economy during the 1980s / Narcis Tulbure -- The extraordinary career of Feketevágo Ur : wood theft, pig-killing, and entrepreneurship in communist Hungary, 1948-1956 / Karl Brown -- Keeping it close to home : resourcefulness and scarcity in late socialist and post-socialist Poland / Malgorzata Mazurek -- Constructive criticism : introduction -- Kids, cars, or cashews? : debating and remembering consumption in socialist Hungary / Tamas Dombos and Lena Pellandini-Simanyi -- The house that socialism built : reform, consumption and inequality in postwar Yugoslavia / Brigitte Le Normand -- Shop around the bloc : trader tourism and its discontents on the East German-Polish border / Mark Keck-Szajbel -- Index
Note:
Enth. 15 Beitr
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Acknowledgments ; Contributors ; Introduction
,
Living large : introduction ; Tuzex and the hustler : living it up in Czechoslovakia
,
Utopia gone terribly right : plutonium's "gated communities" in the Soviet Union and the United States
,
"Knife in the water" : competitive consumption in urbanizing Poland
,
Quality control : introduction ; 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 : introduction ; 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-- : introduction ; The "socialist bourse" : alcohol, reputation, and gender in Romania's second economy during the 1980s
,
The extraordinary career of Feketevágo Ur : wood theft, pig-killing, and entrepreneurship in communist Hungary, 1948-1956
,
Keeping it close to home : resourcefulness and scarcity in late socialist and post-socialist Poland
,
Constructive criticism : introduction ; 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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780199827664
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Communism unwrapped New York : Oxford University Press, 2012 ISBN 9780199950461
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Political Science
,
Slavic Studies
Keywords:
Osteuropa
;
Verbrauch
;
Verbraucherverhalten
;
Handel
;
Geschichte 1945-1990
;
Aufsatzsammlung
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