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Communism unwrapped, consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, edited by Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger

eng

Includes bibliographical references and index

illustrations

index present

non fiction

Communism unwrapped

bibliography

edited by Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger

consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

Introduction / Paulina Bren and Mary Neuburger -- Part I. Living large. 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 -- Part II. Quality control. 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 -- Part III. Kitchen talk. 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 -- Part IV. To market, to market. The "socialist bourse" : alcohol, reputation, and gender in Romania's second economy during the 1980s / Narcis Tulbure -- The extraordinary career of Feketevago 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 -- Part V. Constructive criticism. 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