Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945-2000.

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Main Author: Valuch, Tibor.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2022.
Edition:1st ed.
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505 0 |a Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts -- About the sources used for this volume -- The concept of daily life, correlations between lifestyle and changes in society -- Chapter Two: Two Hundred Pengős a Month, Five Hundred Forints, TwoThousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life -- National revenue, real wages, and changes in the standard of living -- Wages, prices, inequalities -- Unchanging and changing forms of poverty -- Accumulating property and wealth -- Chapter Three: From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption -- Consumption and consumer attitudes -- The corner store, the supermarket, and the shopping center: Changes in the locations of consumer consumption -- Homes, home construction, furnishings, and durable goods -- Clothing and the consumption of apparel -- The consumption and supply of foodstuffs -- Chapter Four: This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space and Interior Decoration -- The general characteristics determining housing and the state of urban housing -- Village houses, village dwellings -- For those without a home: apartments for rent, beds to let, and work dormitories -- Living in dire straits-slums, shantytowns, and ghettos -- The general characteristics of changes in home interiors -- Working-class and middle-class homes -- Rural and peasant interiors -- The interior world of Soviet-type housing estates -- Summer and weekend homes -- Chapter Five: "Well-dressed and Fashionable": Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion. 
505 8 |a Need and puritanism: rural and urban styles of dress in the mid-twentieth century -- Fashion and dressing habits during the state socialist period: changes in norms for everyday and formal occasions -- Up-to-date fashion and the re-differentiation of apparel at the end of the century -- Chapter Six: "We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs": Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits -- The general characteristics of eating habits -- From starvation to "goulash communism" -- The years of "feeling full" -- Abundance and shortages after the fall of the Iron Curtain -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover. 
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