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

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The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed discusses the history of everyday life under state socialism and the ways in which post-1945 modernity reached the shores of Soviet Bloc societies. This book explains state socialism’s failure to deliver on its promise to create a new type of modern civilization, an alternative to capitalism. Placing the practices of the class of salaried functionaries of the party-state in the focus, György Péteri demonstrates the decisive role of this class in bringing Western values and patterns of everyday to the cultures and societies of Eastern Europe. The empirical work presented covers areas like consumption and consumerism, mobility (the advent of mass automobilism) and leisure (hunting and vacationing). Based on the Hungarian experience, the author finds the communist avantgarde of the state-socialist project in the act of giving up the ambition to create a new (socialist) civilization already in the late 1950s, early 1960s. From the 1960s on, state socialism was no longer a rival of capitalism (the ‘highly developed West’) in terms of creating a competitive, alternative modernity in its everyday. Rather, Eastern Europe settles among other regions of the periphery or semi-periphery of capitalist development, reacting to, imitating and, in general, following the patterns of the highly developed capitalist center of the world system with some delay.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
234
ISBN-13:
9781666923964
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1666923966
Udg. Dato:
17 nov 2023
Længde:
22mm
Bredde:
237mm
Højde:
159mm
Forlag:
Lexington Books
Oplagsdato:
17 nov 2023
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