The socialist good life : desire, development, and standards of living in Eastern Europe / edited by Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincyte, and Zsuzsa Gille.
"What does the good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in Western countries, socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers' nee...
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Table of Contents:
- 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, 1971–1989 / 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.