Communism unwrapped
Subtitle: consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
By: edited by Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
ISBN-13: 9780199827671; 9780199827657
Subjects: Communism; Consumption (Economics); Lifestyles
Description: This title reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgments; title: Contributors; title: Introduction / Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger; title: Living large : introduction; title: Tuzex and the hustler : living it up in Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren; title: Utopia gone terribly right : plutonium's "gated communities" in the Soviet Union and the United States / Kate Brown; title: "Knife in the water" : competitive consumption in urbanizing Poland / Kacper Poblocki; title: Quality control : introduction; title: The taste of smoke : bulgartabak and the manufacturing of cigarettes and satisfaction / Mary Neuburger; title: Risky business : what was really being sold in the department stores of socialist Eastern Europe? / Patrick Hyder Patterson; title: Material harmony : the quest for quality in socialist Bulgaria, 1960s-1980s / Rossitza Guentcheva; title: Kitchen talk : introduction; title: Eating up Yugoslavia : cookbooks and consumption in socialist Yugoslavia / Wendy Bracewell; title: Grounds for discontent? : coffee from the black market to the kaffeeklatsch in the GDR / Katherine Pence; title: From black caviar to blackouts : gender, consumption, and lifestyle in Ceausescu's Romania / Jill Massino; title: To market, to market; title: : introduction; title: The "socialist bourse" : alcohol, reputation, and gender in Romania's second economy during the 1980s / Narcis Tulbure; title: The extraordinary career of Feketevágo Ur : wood theft, pig-killing, and entrepreneurship in communist Hungary, 1948-1956 / Karl Brown; title: Keeping it close to home : resourcefulness and scarcity in late socialist and post-socialist Poland / Malgorzata Mazurek; title: Constructive criticism : introduction; title: Kids, cars, or cashews? : debating and remembering consumption in socialist Hungary / Tamas Dombos and Lena Pellandini-Simanyi; title: The house that socialism built : reform, consumption and inequality in postwar Yugoslavia / Brigitte Le Normand; title: Shop around the bloc : trader tourism and its discontents on the East German-Polish border / Mark Keck-Szajbel; title: Index.