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Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

Bren, Paulina
Neuburger, Mary

Paperback

EconomicsEastern European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0199827672
ISBN13: 9780199827671
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 6 2012
Pages: 430
Weight: 1.23
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived in its widely varied contexts in the region. From design, to production, to retail sales and black market exchange, Communism Unwrapped follows communist goods from producer to consumer, tracing their circuitous routes. In the communist world this journey was rife with its own meanings, shaped by the special political and social circumstances of these societies. In examining consumption behind the Iron Curtain, this volume brings dimension and nuance to understandings of the communist period and the history of consumerism.

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