The socialist good life : desire, development, and standards of living in Eastern Europe /

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"What does the good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in Western countries, socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers' nee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scarboro, Cristofer, 1972- (Editor ), Mincyte, Diana (Editor ), Gille, Zsuzsa (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2020]
Temas:
1945-1989
Socialism > Europe, Eastern > History.
Communism > Europe, Eastern > History.
Consumption (Economics) > Europe, Eastern.
Lifestyles > Europe, Eastern.
Style de vie > Europe de l'Est.
HISTORY / Europe / Former Soviet Republics
Communism
Consumption (Economics)
Lifestyles
Politics and government
Socialism
Nationalbewusstsein
Sozialismus
Lebensstandard
Verbraucherverhalten
Europe, Eastern > Politics and government > 1945-1989.
Europe de l'Est > Politique et gouvernement > 1945-1989.
Eastern Europe
Osteuropa
History
Aufsatzsammlung.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The pleasures of backwardness / Zsuzsa Gille, Cristofer Scarboro, and Diana Mincytė
  • 2. Consuming dialogues : pleasure, restraint, "backwardness," and "civilization" in Eastern Europe / Mary Neuburger
  • 3. Just rewards : the social contract and communism's hard bargain with the citizen-consumer / Patrick Hyder Patterson
  • 4. Conceptualizing consumption in the Polish People's Republic / Brian Porter-Szűcs
  • 5. Oranges and the new black : importing, provisioning, and consuming tropical fruits and coffee in the GDR, 1971–1989 / Anne Dietrich
  • 6. VCRs, modernity, and consumer culture in late state socialist Poland / Patryk Wasiak
  • 7. The enchantment of imaginary Europe : consumer practices in post-Soviet Ukraine / Tania Bulakh
  • 8. The late socialist good life and its discontents : bit, kultura, and the social life of goods / Cristofer Scarboro
  • 9. The prosumerist resonance machine : rethinking political subjectivity and consumer desire in state socialism / Zsuzsa Gille and Diana Mincytė.

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