Title Pleasures in socialism : leisure and luxury in the Eastern Bloc / edited and with an introduction by David Crowley and Susan E. Reid

Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 348 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction: Pleasures in socialism? / David Crowley and Susan E. Reid -- Luxury in socialism: an absurd proposition? / Ina Merkel -- Kontra kultura: leisure and youthful rebellion in Stalinist Poland / Katherine Lebow -- Dior in Moscow: a taste for luxury in Soviet fashion under Khrushchev / Larissa Zakharova -- Soviet luxuries from champagne to private cars / Jukka Gronow and Sergei Zhuravlev -- Playing for cultural authority: Soviet TV professionals and the game show in the 1950s and 1960s / Kristin Roth-Ey -- Women on the verge of desire: women, work, and consumption in socialist Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren -- Camping in East Germany: making "rough" nature more comfortable / Scott Moranda -- "Even under socialism, we don't want to do without love": East German erotica / Josie McLellan -- Inhaling luxury: smoking and anti-smoking in socialist Bulgaria 1947-1989 / Mary Neuburger -- Drink, leisure, and the second economy in socialist Romania / Narcis Tulbure -- Soviet women and fur consumption in the Brezhnev era / Anna Tikhomirova -- Nomenklatura with smoking guns: hunting in communist Hungary's party-state elite / Gyorgy Peteri Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Print version record Subject Leisure -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Luxuries -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Consumption (Economics) -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century Socialism and culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. Consumption (Economics) Leisure -- Social aspects Luxuries -- Social aspects Manners and customs Socialism and culture SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Subject Eastern Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Crowley, David, 1966- Reid, Susan Emily ISBN 9780810164741 0810164744

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