Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe : History Doesn't Travel in One Direction.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Massino, Jill.

Contributor:

Wien, Markus.

Series:

Central European Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Socialism.

Europe, Eastern--History--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Europe, Eastern--Social conditions--1989-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press, 2024.

Summary:

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people's varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all.

Contents:

Cover

EVERYDAY POSTSOCIALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE

Title

Copyright

Dedication

CONTENTS

Foreword: Mapping Heres and Theres

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: Continuities, Ruptures, and Alternative Temporalities

PART I: SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS

1. "People Knew They Wouldn't Have to Scrape Dry Chocolate if They Called Me In": Industry, Subjectivity, and the Long Transformation

2. How Foreigners Destroyed our Factory: Repressed Memories of a Czech Flagship Sugar Plant

3. From Risk to Risky: Hungary's Second Economy and Its Transition to the Market after 1989

PART II: THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION

4. "There's a Lot of Talk About Tolerance, but That's Just Words": Being Gay in Postsocialist Poland

5. Reinventing Postsocialism as Heteronationalism: (Dis)continuities and Frictive Biopolitics in Orbán's Hungary

6. Eradicating Socialist Internationalism: The Expulsion of Foreign Students in Postsocialist Bulgaria

PART III: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW

7. The Specter of Sex: Continuities and Changes in Sex Education in Postsocialist Romania

8. No Country for (Poor) Women: Reproductive Rights, Conservatism, and Neoliberalism in Postsocialist Romania

PART IV: ORIGIN STORIES

9. The "Turncoat" as a Social Form: Tracing Everyday Moral Grammars of Justice in Post-1989 East Germany and Czechia

10. From Steppe to State: Alternative Histories, Amateur Knowledge, and the Search for Origin in Post-1989 Bulgaria

11. "I'm An Outsider, I'm An Insider, And Oh, How Happy I Am": Narratives of Former Communist Party Members in Hungary

PART V: HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

12. Children of the Wende: Everyday Experiences of the Postsocialist Transformation in (East) Germany

13. Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind: The Romanian Diaspora and Politics at Home

Contributors.

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-61249-971-6

1-61249-972-4

OCLC:

1492997497