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ISBN 10: 0199827672
ISBN 13: 9780199827671
Author: Paulina Bren, Mary Neuburger
Communism Unwrapped 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. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived in its widely varied contexts in the region. From design, to production, to retail sales and black market exchange, Communism Unwrapped follows communist goods from producer to consumer, tracing their circuitous routes. In the communist world this journey was rife with its own meanings, shaped by the special political and social circumstances of these societies. In examining consumption behind the Iron Curtain, this volume brings dimension and nuance to understandings of the communist period and the history of consumerism.
Communism unwrapped consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe 1st Table of contents:
Part I. Living Large
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Tuzex and the Hustler: Living It Up in Czechoslovakia
Paulina Bren -
Utopia Gone Terribly Right: Plutonium’s “Gated Communities” in the Soviet Union and United States
Kate Brown -
“Knife in the Water”: The Struggle over Collective Consumption in Urbanizing Poland
Kacper Pobłocki
Part II. Quality Control
4. The Taste of Smoke: Bulgartabak and the Manufacturing of Cigarettes and Satisfaction
Mary Neuburger
5. Risky Business: What Was Really Being Sold in the Department Stores of Socialist Eastern Europe?
Patrick Hyder Patterson
6. Material Harmony: The Quest for Quality in Socialist Bulgaria, 1960s–1980s
Rossitza Guentcheva
Part III. Kitchen Talk
7. Eating Up Yugoslavia: Cookbooks and Consumption in Socialist Yugoslavia
Wendy Bracewell
8. Grounds for Discontent? Coffee from the Black Market to the Kaffeeklatsch in the GDR
Katherine Pence
9. From Black Caviar to Blackouts: Gender, Consumption, and Lifestyle in Ceauşescu’s Romania
Jill Massino
Part IV. To Market, to Market . . .
10. The Socialist Clearinghouse: Alcohol, Reputation, and Gender in Romania’s Second Economy
Narcis Tulbure
11. The Extraordinary Career of Feketevágó Úr : Wood Theft, Pig Killing, and Entrepreneurship in Communist Hungary, 1948–1956
Karl Brown
12. Keeping It Close to Home: Resourcefulness and Scarcity in Late Socialist and Postsocialist Poland
Małgorzata Mazurek
Part V. Constructive Criticism
13. Kids, Cars, or Cashews? Debating and Remembering Consumption in Socialist Hungary
Tamas Dombos and Lena Pellandini-Simanyi
14. The House That Socialism Built: Reform, Consumption, and Inequality in Postwar Yugoslavia
Brigitte Le Normand
15. Shop Around the Bloc: Trader Tourism and Its Discontents on the East German–Polish Border
Mark Keck-Szajbel
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