The socialist good life

• Titel: The socialist good life
• Titelzusatz: desire, development, and standards of living in Eastern Europe
• Mitwirkende: Scarboro, Cristofer [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Mincytė, Diana [HerausgeberIn]
• Mitwirkende: Gille, Zsuzsa [HerausgeberIn]
• Körperschaft: The Pleasures of Backwardness: Consumer Desire and Modernity in Eastern Europe <Veranstaltung, 2015, Berkeley, Calif.> [VerfasserIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Cristofer Scarboro, Diana Mincytė, and Zsuzsa Gille
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• E-Jahr: 2020
• Jahr: [2020]
• Umfang: ix, 244 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Format: 23 cm
• Fussnoten: Literaturangaben. - Aus dem Vorwort: This volume based on The Pleasures of Backwardness: Consumer Desire and Modernity in Eastern Europe, a conference that took place at the University of California, Berkely in April 2015
• ISBN: 978-0-253-04776-2
• ISBN: 978-0-253-04779-3
• Schlagwörter: (g)Osteuropa / (s)Sozialismus / (s)Lebensstandard / (s)Verbraucherverhalten / (s)Nationalbewusstsein / (z)Geschichte 1950-1990
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2015 : Berkeley)
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: The socialist good life. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2020
• RVK-Notation: NQ 8273
• K10plus-PPN: 1698314183

Abstract

"What does the good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in Western countries, socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers' needs. Moving beyond binaries of production and consumption, the essays collected here examine the lessons consumption studies can offer about ethnic and national identity and the role of economic expertise in shaping consumer behavior. From Polish VCRs to Ukrainian fashion boutiques, tropical fruits in the GDR to cinemas in Belgrade, The Socialist Good Life explores what consumption means in a worker state where communist ideology emphasizes collective needs over individual pleasures."--