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1 online resource (vii, 348 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Leisure -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Leisure -- Social aspects. |
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Eastern Europe. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Luxuries -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Luxuries -- Social aspects. |
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Consumption (Economics) -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Luxuries. |
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Europe, Eastern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century.
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Manners and customs. |
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Socialism and culture -- Europe, Eastern -- History -- 20th century.
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Socialism and culture. |
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Consumption (Economics) |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Crowley, David, 1966-
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Reid, Susan Emily.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pleasures in socialism. Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2010 (DLC) 2010012860 (OCoLC)419819809 |
| ISBN |
9780810164741 (electronic book) |
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0810164744 (electronic book) |
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9780810126909 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0810126907 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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