Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945-2000.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Budapest :
Central European University Press,
2022.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.