The Late Socialist Good Life In Bulgaria

Author : Cristofer Scarboro,Diana Mincyte,Zsuzsu Gille
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253047809

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The Socialist Good Life by Cristofer Scarboro,Diana Mincyte,Zsuzsu Gille Pdf

“First-class, rigorously researched, richly documented, and thought-provoking” essays on the consumer experience in socialist Eastern Europe (Graham H. Roberts, author of Material Culture in Russia and the USSR). As communist regimes denigrated Western countries for widespread unemployment and consumer excess, socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers’ needs. Moving beyond binaries of production and consumption, the essays collected here examine the lessons consumption studies can offer about ethnic and national identity and the role of economic expertise in shaping consumer behavior. From Polish VCRs to Ukrainian fashion boutiques, tropical fruits in the GDR to cinemas in Belgrade, The Socialist Good Life explores what consumption means in a worker state where communist ideology emphasizes collective needs over individual pleasures.

Author : Cristofer Scarboro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0739145592

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The Late Socialist Good Life in Bulgaria by Cristofer Scarboro Pdf

This book investigates the question of subjectivity-how people made sense of a world that was supposed to be understood within centrally created ideological frameworks. It brings together the literature of socialism, nationalism and trans-nationalism, and post-colonialism, areas that have been heretofore all too discreet. How states attempt to model subjects, and the negotiation this entails, is the central question of the modern era. It will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of subjects from history to anthropology to aesthetics.

Author : Irina Livezeanu,Arpad von Klimo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351863421

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The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 by Irina Livezeanu,Arpad von Klimo Pdf

Covering territory from Russia in the east to Germany and Austria in the west, The Routledge History of East Central Europe since 1700 explores the origins and evolution of modernity in this turbulent region. This book applies fresh critical approaches to major historical controversies and debates, expanding the study of a region that has experienced persistent and profound change and yet has long been dominated by narrowly nationalist interpretations. Written by an international team of contributors that reflects the increasing globalization and pluralism of East Central European studies, chapters discuss key themes such as economic development, the relationship between religion and ethnicity, the intersection between culture and imperial, national, wartime, and revolutionary political agendas, migration, women’s and gender history, ideologies and political movements, the legacy of communism, and the ways in which various states in East Central Europe deployed and were formed by the politics of memory and commemoration. This book uses new methodologies in order to fundamentally reshape perspectives on the development of East Central Europe over the past three centuries. Transnational and comparative in approach, this volume presents the latest research on the social, cultural, political and economic history of modern East Central Europe, providing an analytical and comprehensive overview for all students of this region.

Author : Albena Shkodrova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781350132313

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Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria by Albena Shkodrova Pdf

How did people exist and resist in their daily lives under Soviet control in the Cold War period? Shkodrova's monograph shows how in communist Bulgaria many women passionately exchanged recipes with friends and strangers, to build substantial and impressive private collections of recipes. This activity was borderline contraband in going against the general disapproval of home cooking that formed part of the ideology of communism, in which home cooking was considered household slavery and an agent of patriarchalism. Private recipe collections were by far the preferred written source of culinary information, more popular than the state-approved commercial cookbooks. Shkodrova shows how these recipe collections held many different meanings for the women who collected them, from helping to navigate the communist economy, to enabling new friendships to be developed while engaging safely in power relations, and cultivating a sense of individual identity in a society where collective existence was prioritised and exalted. Drawing on primary sources including scrapbook cookbooks and working from the establishment of cookery classes before communism and their obliteration thereafter, Shkodrova presents a structured outline of the meanings of recipes exchange and home cooking for Bulgarian women under communism.

Author : Raymond Detrez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442241800

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Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria by Raymond Detrez Pdf

This third edition covers Bulgarian history through a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, an extensive bibliography, and over 700 cross-referenced entries on important people, politics, economy, foreign relations, religion, and culture. This book is an access point for students, researchers, and general readers.

Author : Dušan I. Bjelić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429594007

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Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe by Dušan I. Bjelić Pdf

Offering a fresh look at the ways in which neoliberalism has claimed to cure the Balkan region of its ethnic particularities under the pretext of Europeanization, this book shows how the reconfiguration of the economic, political, and cultural landscape of the region has resulted in its functioning as Europe’s neocolony. The contributors to this volume engage in postcolonial analysis of the Balkans’ past and present coloniality by way of interrogating race, racism, trauma, film, and global capitalism. They challenge the idea of a United Europe that rests on the assumption that the European Union’s ‘newness’ represents both a clean slate and the right to shift ownership of its colonial histories to former colonial subjects and their national histories. Taken as a whole, the volume seeks to transform Europe’s colonial amnesia into postcolonial awareness and to speak from within the Balkans as a site of Europe’s neocolony. As it critically interrogates a neocolonial reconfiguration of the Balkans as a massive social overhaul, which includes at once global integration and local social disintegration, this book will be of interest to those studying the region, as well as postcolonialism in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Author : Zhivka Valiavicharska
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228007838

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Restless History by Zhivka Valiavicharska Pdf

Post-Stalinism – the last three decades of socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe – gave birth to new political ideas and social struggles, which reshaped socialist societies and forged new global imaginaries. With a focus on socialist Bulgaria, Restless History traces the dynamic polemical and social shifts that took place during this period. With anti-Stalinist and humanist visions, socialist societies rebuilt their material and social worlds around social-reproductive needs such as care, housing, education, leisure, rest, and access to culture and the arts. In the sphere of global politics, they created anti-racist, feminist, anti-colonial, and anti-imperialist solidarities that challenged Western hegemony and reordered the global geographies of power. Yet the changes of the period also took some troubling directions: humanist imaginaries of socialist progress, modernity, and nationhood welcomed ideas of national and social homogeneity, opening the doors to ethnonationalism. Following the promising as well as troubling moments in the history of Bulgarian post-Stalinism, Zhivka Valiavicharska brings to life the complexities of real lived socialism. Restless History re-examines the post-Stalinist period in Bulgaria, Eastern Europe, and beyond – in all its tensions and contradictions – to offer the socialist past as an unfinished history, one that cannot be easily put to rest.

Author : Martin Marinos
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780252055126

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Free to Hate by Martin Marinos Pdf

Linking neoliberalism with the Right’s global rise Bulgaria’s media-driven pivot to right-wing populism parallels political developments taking place around the world. Martin Marinos applies a critical political economy approach to place Bulgarian right-wing populism within the structural transformation of the country’s media institutions. As Marinos shows, media concentration under Western giants like Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung and News Corporation have led to a neoliberal turn of commercialization, concentration, and tabloidization across media. The Right have used the anticommunism and racism bred by this environment to not only undermine traditional media but position their own outlets to boost new political entities like the nationalist party Ataka. Marinos’s ethnographic observations and interviews with local journalists, politicians, and media experts add on-the-ground detail to his account. He also examines several related issues, including the performative appeal of populist media and the money behind it. A timely and innovative analysis, Free to Hate reveals where structural changes in media intersect with right-wing populism.

Author : Ivaĭlo Znepolski,Mihail Gruev,Momčil Metodiev,Martin Ivanov,Daniel Vačkov,Ivan Elenkov,Plamen Doĭnov
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Bulgaria
ISBN : 0367586436

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Bulgaria Under Communism by Ivaĭlo Znepolski,Mihail Gruev,Momčil Metodiev,Martin Ivanov,Daniel Vačkov,Ivan Elenkov,Plamen Doĭnov Pdf

The book traces the history of communist Bulgaria from 1944 to 1989. A chronological overview of the building of the socialist state from the ground up, its peaceful entrenchment into the routine of everyday life, its inner crises, and its gradual running out of steam and self-destruction are charted. The book is the definitive guide to Bulgaria

Author : Joachim C. Häberlen,Mark Keck-Szajbel,Kate Mahoney
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781789200003

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The Politics of Authenticity by Joachim C. Häberlen,Mark Keck-Szajbel,Kate Mahoney Pdf

Following the convulsions of 1968, one element uniting many of the disparate social movements that arose across Europe was the pursuit of an elusive “authenticity” that could help activists to understand fundamental truths about themselves—their feelings, aspirations, sexualities, and disappointments. This volume offers a fascinating exploration of the politics of authenticity as they manifested themselves among such groups as Italian leftists, East German lesbian activists, and punks on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Together they show not only how authenticity came to define varied social contexts, but also how it helped to usher in the neoliberalism of a subsequent era.

Author : Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857456434

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Post-communist Nostalgia by Maria Todorova,Zsuzsa Gille Pdf

Although the end of the Cold War was greeted with great enthusiasm by people in the East and the West, the ensuing social and especially economic changes did not always result in the hoped-for improvements in people's lives. This led to widespread disillusionment that can be observed today all across Eastern Europe. Not simply a longing for security, stability, and prosperity, this nostalgia is also a sense of loss regarding a specific form of sociability. Even some of those who opposed communism express a desire to invest their new lives with renewed meaning and dignity. Among the younger generation, it surfaces as a tentative yet growing curiosity about the recent past. In this volume scholars from multiple disciplines explore the various fascinating aspects of this nostalgic turn by analyzing the impact of generational clusters, the rural-urban divide, gender differences, and political orientation. They argue persuasively that this nostalgia should not be seen as a wish to restore the past, as it has otherwise been understood, but instead it should be recognized as part of a more complex healing process and an attempt to come to terms both with the communist era as well as the new inequalities of the post-communist era.

Author : Diljana Ivanova
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9549257142

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Memories of Everyday Life During Socialism in the Town of Rousse, Bulgaria by Diljana Ivanova Pdf

Author : Albena Shkodrova
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864043

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Communist Gourmet by Albena Shkodrova Pdf

Communist Gourmet presents a lively, detailed account of how the communist regime in Bulgaria determined people’s everyday food experience between 1944 and 1989. It examines the daily routines of acquiring food, cooking it, and eating out at restaurants through the memories of Bulgarians and foreigners, during communism. In looking back on a wide array of issues and events, Albena Shkodrova attempts to explain the paradoxes of daily existence. She reports human stories that are touching, sometimes dark, but often full of humor and anecdotes from nearly one hundred people: some of them are Bulgarians who were involved in the communist food industry, whether as consumers or employees, while others are visitors from the United States and Western Europe who report culinary highlights and disappointments. The author made use of the national press, officially published cookbooks, Communist Party documents, and other previously unstudied sources. An appendix containing recipes of dishes typical of the period and an extensive set of archival photographs are special features of the volume.

Author : Mary C. Neuburger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Food
ISBN : 1501762583

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Ingredients of Change by Mary C. Neuburger Pdf

"This book explores the transformation of foodways in modern Bulgaria, through focused chapters on bread, meat, milk, vegetables, and wine. Such ingredients--as the Bulgarian diet itself--changed radically in form and substance in the shadow of changing global and local narratives, practices, and possibilities"--

Author : Yuson Jung
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253036742

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Balkan Blues by Yuson Jung Pdf

Balkan Blues explores how a state transitions from the collectivized production and distribution of socialism to the consumer-focused culture of capitalism. Yuson Jung considers the state as an economic agent in upholding rights and responsibilities in the shift to a global market. Taking Bulgaria as her focus, Jung shows how impoverished Bulgarians developed a consumer-oriented society and how the concept of "need" adapted in surprising ways to accommodate this new culture. Different legal frameworks arose to ensure the rights of vulnerable or deceived consumers. Consumer advocacy NGOs and government officers scrambled to navigate unfamiliar EU-imposed models for consumer affairs departments. All of these changes involved issues of responsibility, accountability, and civic engagement, which brought Bulgarians new ways of viewing both their identities and their sense of agency. Yet these opportunities also raised questions of inequality, injustice, and social stratification. Jung’s study provides a compelling argument for reconsidering of the role of the state in the construction of 21st-century consumer cultures.