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Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary

Author : György Majtényi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253055934

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Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary by György Majtényi Pdf

After World War II, a new community of elite emerged in Hungary, in spite of the communist principles espoused by the government. In Luxury and the Ruling Elite in Socialist Hungary, György Majtényi allows us a peek inside their affluence. Majtényi exposes the lavish standard of living that the higher echelon enjoyed, complete with pools, Persian rugs, extravagant furniture, servants, and groundskeepers. They shopped in private stores stocked with expensive meats and tropical fruits just for them. They benefited from access to everything from books, telephone lines, and international travel to hunting grounds, soccer games, and even the choicest cemetery plots. But Majtényi also reveals the underbelly of such society, particularly how these privileges were used as a way of maintaining power, initiating or denying entry to party members, and strengthening the very hierarchies that communism promised to abolish. Taking readers on a fascinating and often surprising look inside the manor homes and vacation villas of wealthy post–World War II Hungarians, Majtényi offers fresh insight into the realities of patriarchy, loyalty, gender, and class within the communist regime.

Everyday Life under Communism and After

Author : Tibor Valuch
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863770

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Everyday Life under Communism and After by Tibor Valuch Pdf

By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.

The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class

Author : György Péteri
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666923971

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The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class by György Péteri Pdf

"An archivally based exploration of the everyday life in Hungary's communist apparatus class after 1956, this book covers consumption, mobility, and leisure. Péteri shows how class power and privilege as well as Western patterns asserted themselves in the everyday of state-socialist society"--

Survival under Dictatorships

Author : László Borhi
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633867174

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Survival under Dictatorships by László Borhi Pdf

A complex array of individual responses to the abuse of power by the state is represented in this book in three horrific episodes in the history of East-Central Europe. The three events followed each other within a span of about ten years: the deportation and murder of Hungarian Jews in Nazi death and labor camps; the Arrow Cross terrorist rule in Budapest; and finally the Stalinist terror in Hungary and East-Central Europe. Through the prism of survival, László Borhi explores the relationship between the individual and power, attempting to understand the mechanism of oppression and terror produced by arbitrary, unbridled power through the experience of normal people. Despite the obvious peculiarities of time and place, the Hungarian cases convey universal lessons about the Holocaust, Nazism, and Stalinism. In the author's conception, the National Socialist and Stalinist experiences are linked on several levels. Both regimes defended their visions of the future against social groups whom they saw as implacable enemies of those visions, and who therefore had to be destroyed for sake of social perfection. Furthermore, the social practices of National Socialism were passed on. And although Stalinism was imposed by a foreign power, some of the survival skills for coping with it were rehearsed under the previous hellish experience.

Go East!

Author : Balázs Ablonczy
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253057426

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Go East! by Balázs Ablonczy Pdf

For more than two centuries, Hungarians believed they shared an ethnic link with people of Japanese, Bulgarian, Estonian, Finnish, and Turkic descent. Known as "Turanism," this ideology impacts Hungarian politics, science, and cultural and ethnic identity even today. In Go East!: A History of Hungarian Turanism, Balázs Ablonczy examines the rise of Hungarian Turanism and its lasting effect on the country's history. Turanism arose from the collapse of the Kingdom of Hungary, when the nation's intellectuals began to question Hungary's place in the Western world. The influence of this ideology reached its peak during World War I, when Turanian societies funded research, economic missions, and geographical expeditions. Ablonczy traces Turanism from its foundations through its radicalization in the interwar period, its survival in emigrant circles, and its resurgence during the economic crisis of 2008. Turanian notions can be seen today in the rise of the extreme right-wing party Jobbik and in Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán's party Fidesz. Go East! provides fresh insight into Turanism's key political and artistic influences in Hungary and illuminates the mark it has left on history.

Women's Position in Socialist Hungary

Author : Hungarian Women's Council,Information Department of the Central Statistical Office,Magyar Nők Országos Tanácsa,Association of Hungarian Women
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Women
ISBN : 963710089X

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Women's Position in Socialist Hungary by Hungarian Women's Council,Information Department of the Central Statistical Office,Magyar Nők Országos Tanácsa,Association of Hungarian Women Pdf

Politics in Color and Concrete

Author : Krisztina Fehérváry
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253009968

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Politics in Color and Concrete by Krisztina Fehérváry Pdf

A historical anthropology of material transformations of homes in Hungary from the 1950s o the 1990s. Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous—the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Féherváry shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism. This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe. “A major reinterpretation of Soviet-style socialism and an innovative model for analyzing consumption.” —Katherine Verdery, The Graduate Center, City University of New York “Politics in Color and Concrete explains why the everyday is important, and shows why domestic aesthetics embody a crucially significant politics.” —Judith Farquhar, University of Chicago “The topic is extremely timely and relevant; the writing is lucid and thorough; the theory is complex and sophisticated without being overly dense, or daunting. I thoroughly enjoyed reading it.” —Brad Weiss, College of William and Mary

Alienating Labour

Author : Eszter Bartha
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782380269

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Alienating Labour by Eszter Bartha Pdf

The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the “masses” with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy—successful at the outset—in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. It examines the case studies of two large factories, Carl Zeiss Jena (East Germany) and Rába in Győr (Hungary), and demonstrates how the study of the formation of the relationship between the workers’ state and the industrial working class can offer illuminating insights into the important issue of the legitimacy (and its eventual loss) of Communist regimes.

Socialist Authority

Author : Peter A. Toma
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1988-02-22
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038377672

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Socialist Authority by Peter A. Toma Pdf

Careful followers of reform movements within Communist bloc countries will profit from this new work by a specialist on Hungarian politics. Twenty years after introduction of the New Economic Mechanism (NEM), both the Hungarian elite and the mass population have had mixed experiences with the process of reform. From the vantage point of the elite, in the 1980s reform has moved beyond the economic realm into the political. Passage of the new Electoral Law of 1983 resulted in the transfer of more power to locally elected governmental bodies and also produced contested elections for legislative seats. Choice Toma addresses the question: What are the factors and variables that permit one socialist system to exercise more economic, political, and social freedom than another? He studies authority in contemporary Hungarian society with an emphasis on communist practices versus ideological absolutes. He tests some generally accepted views of the socialist system in Hungary and shows how the Hungarians have attempted to resolve the question of how to combine socialist economic planning with social justice. Through a series of case studies, he differentiates between the theory and the practice of socialist authority, mainly through an analysis of how Hungarians have learned to circumvent restrictions imposed by the regime.

Austerities and Aspirations

Author : Béla Tomka
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633863527

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Austerities and Aspirations by Béla Tomka Pdf

This monograph provides an analysis of the economic performance and living standard in Czechoslovakia and its successor states, Hungary, and Poland since 1945. The novelty of the book lies in its broad comparative perspective: it places East Central Europe in a wider European framework that underlines the themes of regional disparities and European commonalities. Going beyond the traditional growth paradigm, the author systematically studies the historical patterns of consumption, leisure, and quality of life—aspects that Tomka argues can best be considered in relation to one other. By adopting this “triple approach,” he undertakes a truly interdisciplinary research drawing from history, economics, sociology, and demography. As a result of Tomka’s three-pillar comparative analysis, the book makes a major contribution to the debates on the dynamics of economic growth in communist and postcommunist East Central Europe, on the socialist consumer culture along with its transformation after 1990, and on how the accounts on East Central Europe can be integrated into the emerging field of historical quality of life research.

The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power

Author : György Konrád,Iván Szelényi
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : UOM:39015002779075

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The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power by György Konrád,Iván Szelényi Pdf

Children of Communism

Author : Sándor Horváth
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253059703

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Children of Communism by Sándor Horváth Pdf

As the sun set on June 8, 1969, a group of teenagers gathered near a massive tree in a main square of Budapest to mourn the untimely death of Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones. By the end of the evening, sirens blared, teens were interrogated, and the myth of the most notorious juvenile gang in Budapest was born. The origin of the Great Tree Gang became an elaborately cultivated morality tale of the dangers posed by allegedly rebellious youths to the conformity of communist communities. In time, governments across Cold War Europe manufactured similar stories about the threats posed by groups of unruly adolescents. In Children of Communism, Sándor Horváth explores this youth counterculture in the Eastern Bloc, how young people there imagined the West, and why this generation proved so crucial to communist identity politics. He not only reveals how communism shaped youth culture, but also how young people shaped official policy. A fascinating read on the power of youth protest, Children of Communism shows what life was like for the first generation to have been born under communism and how one evening spent grieving rock and roll under a tree forever changed lives.

Communism in Hungary

Author : Bennett Kovrig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Communism
ISBN : UOM:39015002987520

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Communism in Hungary by Bennett Kovrig Pdf

FROST (copy 2): From the John Holmes Library collection.

(In)digestion in Literature and Film

Author : Serena J. Rivera,Niki Kiviat
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000071733

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(In)digestion in Literature and Film by Serena J. Rivera,Niki Kiviat Pdf

(In)digestion in Literature and Film: A Transcultural Approach is a collection of essays spanning diverse geographic areas such as Brazil, Eastern Europe, France, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States. Despite this geographic variance, they all question disordered eating practices represented in literary and filmic works. The collection ultimately redefines disorder, removing the pathology and stigma assigned to acts of non-normative eating. In so doing, the essays deem taboo practices of food consumption, rejection and avoidance as expressions of resistance and defiance in the face of restrictive sociocultural, political, and economic normativities. As a result, disorder no longer equates to "out of order", implying a sense of brokenness, but is instead envisioned as an act against the dominant of order of operations. The collection therefore shifts critical focus from the eater as the embodiment of disorder to the problematic norms that defines behaviors as such.

Pleasures in Socialism

Author : David Crowley,Susan E. Reid
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780810126909

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Pleasures in Socialism by David Crowley,Susan E. Reid Pdf

This volume shows how the rise of consumer culture took a unique form in Eastern Europe. It investigates the ways in which pleasurable activities were both a space in which these communist governments tried to insinuate themselves and thereby further expand the reach of their authority.