The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe

✍ Scribed by Zsuzsa Gille, Diana Mincyte, Cristofer Scarboro

Year: 2020
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. The Pleasures of Backwardness / Zsuzsa Gille, Cristofer Scarboro, and Diana Mincytė
2. Consuming Dialogues: Pleasure, Restraint, Backwardness, and Civilization in Eastern Europe / Mary Neuburger
3. Just Rewards: The Social Contract and Communism’s Hard Bargain with the Citizen-Consumer / Patrick Hyder Patterson
4. Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People’s Republic / Brian Porter-Szűcs
5. Oranges and the New Black: Importing, Provisioning, and Consuming Tropical Fruits and Coffee in the GDR, 1971–89 / Anne Dietrich
6. VCRs, Modernity, and Consumer Culture in Late State Socialist Poland / Patryk Wasiak
7. The Enchantment of Imaginary Europe: Consumer Practices in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Tania Bulakh
8. The Late Socialist Good Life and Its Discontents: Bit, Kultura, and the Social Life of Goods / Cristofer Scarboro
9. The Prosumerist Resonance Machine: Rethinking Political Subjectivity and Consumer Desire in State Socialism / Zsuzsa Gille and Diana Mincytė
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