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Alienating labour : workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary /

The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy-successful at the outset-in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working clas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bartha, Eszter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Colección:International studies in social history ; v. 22.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Welfare dictatorships, the working class and socialist ideology : a theoretical and methodological outline
  • 1968 and the working class : "What do we get out of socialism?" the reform of enterprise management in East Germany and Hungary
  • Workers in the welfare dictatorships
  • Workers and the party
  • Contrasting the memory of the Kádár and Honecker regimes
  • Conclusion : Squaring the circle? the end of the welfare dictatorships in the GDR and Hungary.