The Everyday And Private Life Of A Communist Ruling Class
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The Everyday And Private Life Of A Communist Ruling Class
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Author : György Péteri
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2023-11-13
The Everyday And Private Life Of A Communist Ruling Class written by György Péteri and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-13 with History categories.
The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed discusses the history of everyday life under state socialism and the ways in which post-1945 modernity reached the shores of Soviet Bloc societies. This book explains state socialism’s failure to deliver on its promise to create a new type of modern civilization, an alternative to capitalism. Placing the practices of the class of salaried functionaries of the party-state in the focus, György Péteri demonstrates the decisive role of this class in bringing Western values and patterns of everyday to the cultures and societies of Eastern Europe. The empirical work presented covers areas like consumption and consumerism, mobility (the advent of mass automobilism) and leisure (hunting and vacationing). Based on the Hungarian experience, the author finds the communist avantgarde of the state-socialist project in the act of giving up the ambition to create a new (socialist) civilization already in the late 1950s, early 1960s. From the 1960s on, state socialism was no longer a rival of capitalism (the ‘highly developed West’) in terms of creating a competitive, alternative modernity in its everyday. Rather, Eastern Europe settles among other regions of the periphery or semi-periphery of capitalist development, reacting to, imitating and, in general, following the patterns of the highly developed capitalist center of the world system with some delay.
Russians In Cold War Australia
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Author : Sheila Fitzpatrick
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2024-03-15
Russians In Cold War Australia written by Sheila Fitzpatrick and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-15 with History categories.
Russians in Cold War Australia explores the time during the Cold War when Russian displaced persons, including former Soviet citizens, were amongst the hundreds of thousands of immigrants given assisted passage to Australia and other Western countries in the wake of the Second World War. With the Soviet Union and Australia as enemies, skepticism surrounding the immigrants’ avowed anti-communism introduced new hardships and challenges. This book examines Russian immigration to Australia in the late 1940s and 1950s, both through their own eyes and those of Australia's security service (ASIO), to whom all Russian speakers were persons of interest.
The Emergence Of The Modern Central Bank And Global Cooperation
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Author : Barry Eichengreen
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-10-31
The Emergence Of The Modern Central Bank And Global Cooperation written by Barry Eichengreen and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-31 with Business & Economics categories.
Provides new analysis of the spread of central banking beyond Western Europe and North America in the 1920s and 1930s.
Everyday Life In Early Soviet Russia
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Author : Christina Kiaer
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2006
Everyday Life In Early Soviet Russia written by Christina Kiaer and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
How Soviet citizens in the 1920s and 1930s internalized Soviet ways of looking at the world and living their everyday lives.
Rebellious Cooks And Recipe Writing In Communist Bulgaria
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Author : Albena Shkodrova
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-28
Rebellious Cooks And Recipe Writing In Communist Bulgaria written by Albena Shkodrova and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-28 with Technology & Engineering categories.
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.
The Private Life Of The Soviet Elite
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Author : Ilya Zemtsov
language : en
Publisher: Crane Russak, Incorporated
Release Date : 1985
The Private Life Of The Soviet Elite written by Ilya Zemtsov and has been published by Crane Russak, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Social Science categories.
Readings On The Russian Revolution
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Author : Melissa K. Stockdale
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-09-03
Readings On The Russian Revolution written by Melissa K. Stockdale and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-03 with History categories.
Readings on the Russian Revolution brings together 15 important post-Cold War writings on the history of the Russian Revolution. It is structured in such a way as to highlight key debates in the field and contrasting methodological approaches to the Revolution in order to help readers better understand the issues and interpretative fault lines that exist in this contested area of history. The book opens with an original introduction which provides essential background and vital context for the pieces that follow. The volume is then structured around four parts – 'Actors, Language, Symbols', 'War, Revolution, and the State', 'Revolutionary Dreams and Identities' and 'Outcomes and Impacts' – that explore the beginnings, events and outcomes of the Russian Revolution, as well as examinations of central figures, critical topics and major historiographical battlegrounds. Melissa Stockdale also provides translations of two crucial Russian-language works, published here in English for the first time, and includes useful pedagogical features such as a glossary, chronology, and thematic bibliography to further aid study. Readings on the Russian Revolution is an essential collection for anyone studying the Russian Revolution.
Public And Private In Thought And Practice
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Author : Jeff Weintraub
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1997-03-15
Public And Private In Thought And Practice written by Jeff Weintraub and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-15 with Philosophy categories.
These essays, by widely respected scholars in fields ranging from social and political theory to historical sociology and cultural studies, illuminate the significance of the public/private distinction for an increasingly wide range of debates. Commenting on controversies surrounding such issues as abortion rights, identity politics, and the requirements of democratization, many of these essays clarify crucial processes that have shaped the culture and institutions of modern societies. In contexts ranging from friendship, the family, and personal life to nationalism, democratic citizenship, the role of women in social and political life, and the contrasts between western and (post-)Communist societies, this book brings out the ways the various uses of the public/private distinction are simultaneously distinct and interconnected. Public and Private in Thought and Practice will be of interest to students and scholars in disciplines including politics, law, philosophy, history, sociology, and women's studies. Contributors include Jeff Weintraub, Allan Silver, Craig Calhoun, Daniela Gobetti, Jean L. Cohen, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Alan Wolfe, Krishan Kumar, David Brain, Karen Hansen, Marc Garcelon, and Oleg Kharkhordin.
Nomenklatura
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Author : M. S. Voslenskiĭ
language : en
Publisher: Hutchinson
Release Date : 1984
Nomenklatura written by M. S. Voslenskiĭ and has been published by Hutchinson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
Stalin S Legacy In Romania
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Author : Stefano Bottoni
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2018-05-29
Stalin S Legacy In Romania written by Stefano Bottoni and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-05-29 with History categories.
This study explores the little-known history of the Hungarian Autonomous Region (HAR), a Soviet-style territorial autonomy that was granted in Romania on Stalin’s personal advice to the Hungarian Székely community in the summer of 1952. Since 1945, a complex mechanism of ethnic balance and power-sharing helped the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) to strengthen—with Soviet assistance—its political legitimacy among different national and social groups. The communist national policy followed an integrative approach toward most minority communities, with the relevant exception of Germans, who were declared collectively responsible for the German occupation and were denied political and even civil rights until 1948. The Hungarians of Transylvania were provided with full civil, political, cultural, and linguistic rights to encourage political integration. The ideological premises of the Hungarian Autonomous Region followed the Bolshevik pattern of territorial autonomy elaborated by Lenin and Stalin in the early 1920s. The Hungarians of Székely Land would become a “titular nationality” provided with extensive cultural rights. Yet, on the other hand, the Romanian central power used the region as an instrument of political and social integration for the Hungarian minority into the communist state. The management of ethnic conflicts increased the ability of the PCR to control the territory and, at the same time, provided the ruling party with a useful precedent for the far larger “nationalization” of the Romanian communist regime which, starting from the late 1950s, resulted in “ethnicized” communism, an aim achieved without making use of pre-war nationalist discourse. After the Hungarian revolution of 1956, repression affected a great number of Hungarian individuals accused of nationalism and irredentism. In 1960 the HAR also suffered territorial reshaping, its Hungarian-born political leadership being replaced by ethnic Romanian cadres. The decisive shift from a class dictatorship toward an ethnicized totalitarian regime was the product of the Gheorghiu-Dej era and, as such, it represented the logical outcome of a long-standing ideological fouling of Romanian communism and more traditional state-building ideologies.