From The Vanguard To The Margins: Workers In Hungary, 1939 To The Present: Selected Essays By Mark Pittaway - Historical Materialism, Volume 66

Mark Pittaway was the pre-eminent historian of contemporary Hungary. This volume collects his most important work.

List of contents

Acknowledgements.

Abbreviations

Introduction
By Adam B. Fabry

1 Crisis, War and Occupation

2 Building Socialism

3 The Reproduction of Hierarchy: Skill, Working-Class Culture, and the State in Early Socialist Hungary

4 The Social Limits of State Control: Time, the Industrial Wage Relation, and Social Identity in Stalinist Hungary, 1948–53

5 Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary

6 The Revolution and Industrial Workers: The Disintegration and Reconstruction of Socialism, 1953–58

7 Accommodation and the Limits of Economic Reform: Industrial Workers during the Making and Unmaking of Kádár’s Hungary

8 Research in Hungarian Archives on Post-1945 History

9 Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian-Hungarian Borderlands, 1945–56

10 Workers and the Change of System

11 Fascism in Hungary

12 Towards a Social History of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary

Epilogue
By Nigel Swain

References
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About the author

Mark Pittaway (1971-2010) was a Senior Lecturer in European Studies at The Open University, London, UK. He published numerous articles, translations and monographs on workers in 'socialist' Eastern Europe, especially Hungary, including Eastern Europe, 1939-2000 and The Workers' State.

Adam Fabry has a PhD from Brunel University. He sits on the editorial board of Debatte: Journal for Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and on the corresponding editorial board of Historical Materialism: Research in Critical Marxist Theory. He currently writes about the political economy of neoliberalism and the politics of the far-right.

Summary

Mark Pittaway was the pre-eminent historian of contemporary Hungary. This volume collects his most important work.

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Product details

• Authors: Mark Pittaway, Mark Pittaway, Pittaway Mark
• Assisted by: Adam Fabry (Editor), Fabry Adam (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.05.2015
• EAN: 9781608464777
• ISBN: 978-1-60846-477-7
• Weight: 497 g
• Series: Historical Materialism; Historical Materialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Russia, European History, Political Ideologies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Far-left political ideologies and movements, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Political ideologies and movements, Austro-Hungarian Empire