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Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe Paperback - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Paulina Bren (Editor); Mary Neuburger (Editor)


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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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  • Title Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe
  • Author Paulina Bren (Editor); Mary Neuburger (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 430
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford, U.K.
  • Date 2012-09-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780199827671 / 0199827672
  • Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.1 x 6 x 1.1 in (23.11 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
  • Library of Congress subjects Consumption (Economics), Communism - Europe, Eastern
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012015112
  • Dewey Decimal Code 339.470

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About the author


Paulina Bren teaches at Vassar College and is the author of The Greengrocer and His TV: The Culture of Communism after the 1968 Prague Spring. Mary Neuburger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and is the author of The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria and Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria.
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