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Everyday postsocialism in Eastern Europe : history doesn't travel in one direction /

"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 Postsocialis...

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Other Authors: Massino, Jill (Editor, Contributor), Wien, Markus (Editor, Contributor), Apostolova, Raia (Contributor), Doboș, Corina, 1980- (Contributor), Farcus, Raluca (Political scientist) (Contributor), Gagyiova, Annina (Contributor), Gherghina, Sergiu (Contributor), Hilmar, Till, 1985- (Contributor), Horváth, Sándor, 1974- (Contributor), Jinga, Luciana Marioara (Contributor), Kind-Kovács, Friederike, 1978- (Contributor), Klípa, Ondřej (Contributor), Kościańska, Agnieszka (Contributor), Petrov, Victor, 1987- (Contributor), Renkin, Hadley Z. (Contributor), Scarboro, Cristofer, 1972- (Contributor), Scutaru, Beatrice (Contributor), Wawrzyniak, Joanna, 1975- (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [2024].
Series:Central European studies.
Subjects:
Socialism.
Europe, Eastern > History > 1989-
Europe, Eastern > Social conditions > 1989-
Europe de l'Est > Histoire > 1989-
Europe de l'Est > Conditions sociales > 1989-
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: mapping heres and theres / Cristofer Scarboro
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: everyday postsocialism in Eastern Europe: continuities, ruptures, and alternative temporalities / Jill Massino and Markus Wien
  • Part I: Socioeconomic transformations
  • "People knew they wouldn't have to scrape dry chocolate if they called me in": industry, subjectivity, and the long transformation / Joanna Wawrzyniak
  • How foreigners destroyed our factory: repressed memories of a Czech flagship sugar plant / Ondřej Klípa
  • From risk to risky: Hungary's second economy and its transition the the market after 1989 / Annina Gagyiova
  • Part II: the politics of exclusion
  • "There's a lot of talk about tolerance, but that's just words": being gay in postsocialst Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska
  • Reinventing postsocialsm as herteronationalism: (dis)continuities and frictive biopolitics in Orbán's Hungary / Hadley Z. Renkin
  • Eradicating socialist internationalism: the expulsion of foreign students in postsocialist Bulgaria / Raia Apostolova
  • Part II: Something old, somthing new
  • The specter of sex: continuities and changes in sex education in postsocalist Romania / Beatrice Scutaru and Luciana Jinga
  • No country for (poor) women: reproductive rights, conservatism, and neoliberalism in postsocialist Romania / Corina Doboș
  • Part IV: origin stories
  • The "turncoat" as a socialist form: tracing everyday moral grammars of justice in post-1989 East Germany and Czechia / Till Hilmar
  • From steppe to state: alternative histories, amateur knowledge, and the search for origin in post-1989 Bulgaria / Victor Petrov
  • "I'm an outsider, I'm an insider, and oh, how happy I am": narratives of former communist party members in Hungary / Sándor Horváth
  • Part V: home is where the heart is
  • Children of the wende: everyday experiences of the postsocialist transformation in (East) Germany / Friederike Kind-Kovács
  • Out of sight but not out of mind: the Romanian diaspora and politics at home / Sergiu Gherghina and Raluca Farcas
  • Contributors
  • Index