Communism Unwrapped - Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe

Zusatztext [Bren and Neuburger] provide a valuable and detailed backdrop to a history of places where sausage stands for abundance and bulldozed parmesan symbolises crushed hopes for freedom. Informationen zum Autor Paulina Bren is Adjunct Assistant Professor of History at Vassar College. Mary Neuburger is Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

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• Authors: Paulina Bren, Paulina (EDT)/ Neuburger Bren
• Assisted by: Paulina Bren (Editor), Bren Paulina (Editor), Mary Neuburger (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2012
• EAN: 9780199827657
• ISBN: 978-0-19-982765-7
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Osteuropa, Europäische Geschichte, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, Eastern Europe, European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Geopolitics, HISTORY / Social History, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, History - General History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, The Cold War, Marxism & Communism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Cold wars and proxy conflicts, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General