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

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

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Valuch, Tibor.
Place / Publishing House:Budapest : : Central European University Press,, 2022.
©2021.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (510 pages)
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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.

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