Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class - Greed and Creed

An archivally based exploration of the everyday life in Hungary's communist apparatus class after 1956, this book covers consumption, mobility, and leisure. Péteri shows how class power and privilege as well as Western patterns asserted themselves in the everyday of state-socialist society.

List of contents

Foreword
Prologue
Chapter 1: Consumerism and Demand Side Abundance
Chapter 2: New Sobriety: Comrade Kucsera and His Legacy
Chapter 3: The Acquisitive Functionary
Chapter 4: Hunting
Chapter 5: Holidays and Class Struggle under State Socialism
Chapter 6: Forgetting the Simple Art of Walking: The Social Order of Apparatus Mobility
Conclusion

About the author

György Péteri is professor emeritus at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway.

Summary

An archivally based exploration of the everyday life in Hungary’s communist apparatus class after 1956, this book covers consumption, mobility, and leisure. Péteri shows how class power and privilege as well as Western patterns asserted themselves in the everyday of state-socialist society.

Product details

• Authors: Gyoergy Peteri, Gyorgy Peteri, György Péteri
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2023
• EAN: 9781666923964
• ISBN: 978-1-66692-396-4
• No. of pages: 234
• Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, European History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Hungary, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Marxism & Communism, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period)