Communism unwrapped : consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe / ed. by Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger

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...

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Kolejni autorzy:Bren, Paulina (Redaktor)
Neuburger, Mary (Redaktor)
Format: Książka
Język:English
Wydane:New York, NY [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2012
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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
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