Class Cultures in Post-Socialist Eastern Europe
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781138321366
Subjects: Social classes, europe; Europe, eastern, social conditions
Description: "This book investigates the extent to which social class has changed in Eastern Europe since the fall of communism. Based on extensive original research, the book discusses how ideas about class are viewed by both working class and middle class people. The book examines how such people's social identities are shaped by various factors including economic success, culture and friendship networks. The present class situation in Eastern Europe is contrasted to what prevailed in Communist times, when societies were officially classless, but nevertheless had Communist party elites"--