Pleasures in socialism
Subtitle: leisure and luxury in the Eastern Bloc
By: edited and with an introduction by David Crowley and Susan E. Reid
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780810126909
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Pleasures in socialism? / David Crowley and Susan E. Reid; title: Luxury in socialism : an absurd proposition? / Ina Merkel; title: Kontra kultura : leisure and youthful rebellion in Stalinist Poland / Katherine Lebow; title: Dior in Moscow : a taste for luxury in Soviet fashion under Khrushchev / Larissa Zakharova; title: Soviet luxuries from champagne to private cars / Jukka Gronow and Sergei Zhuravlev; title: Playing for cultural authority : Soviet TV professionals and the game show in the 1950s and 1960s / Kristin Roth-Ey; title: Women on the verge of desire : women, work, and consumption in socialist Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren; title: Camping in East Germany : making "rough" nature more comfortable / Scott Moranda; title: "Even under socialism, we don't want to do without love" : East German erotica / Josie McLellan; title: Inhaling luxury : smoking and anti-smoking in socialist Bulgaria 1947-1989 / Mary Neuburger; title: Drink, leisure, and the second economy in socialist Romania / Narcis Tulbure; title: Soviet women and fur consumption in the Brezhnev era / Anna Tikhomirova; title: Nomenklatura with smoking guns : hunting in communist Hungary's party-state elite / Gyorgy Peteri.