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Pleasures in Socialism : Leisure and Luxury in the Eastern Bloc / edited and with an introduction by David Crowley and Susan E. Reid.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Socialism and culture--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Socialism and culture.
- Consumption (Economics)--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Luxuries--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Luxuries.
- Leisure--Social aspects--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.
- Leisure.
- Europe, Eastern--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Europe, Eastern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 348 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Much has been written about the workings of communist governments in the USSR and the Soviet bloc, yet there is still a great deal to explore regarding their relationship to the everyday lives of the citizens living under them.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Pleasures in socialism? / David Crowley and Susan E. Reid
- Luxury in socialism: an absurd proposition? / Ina Merkel
- Kontra kultura: leisure and youthful rebellion in Stalinist Poland / Katherine Lebow
- Dior in Moscow: a taste for luxury in Soviet fashion under Khrushchev / Larissa Zakharova
- Soviet luxuries from champagne to private cars / Jukka Gronow and Sergei Zhuravlev
- Playing for cultural authority: Soviet TV professionals and the game show in the 1950s and 1960s / Kristin Roth-Ey
- Women on the verge of desire: women, work, and consumption in socialist Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren
- Camping in East Germany: making "rough" nature more comfortable / Scott Moranda
- "Even under socialism, we don't want to do without love": East German erotica / Josie McLellan
- Inhaling luxury: smoking and anti-smoking in socialist Bulgaria 1947-1989 / Mary Neuburger
- Drink, leisure, and the second economy in socialist Romania / Narcis Tulbure
- Soviet women and fur consumption in the Brezhnev era / Anna Tikhomirova
- Nomenklatura with smoking guns: hunting in communist Hungary's party-state elite / Gyorgy Peteri.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8101-6474-4
- OCLC:
- 761335086
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