Everyday Life under Communism and After : : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945-2000 / / Tibor Valuch ; translated by Maja J. Lo Bello.
By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to des...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest ;, Vienna, New York : : CEU Press,, 2021. ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 volume) :; illustrations (black and white) ; |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acronyms
- Introduction
- Chapter One. The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts
- Chapter Two. Two Hundred Pengős a Month, Five Hundred Forints, Two Thousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life
- Chapter Three. From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption
- Chapter Four. This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space, and Interior Decoration
- Chapter Five. “Well-dressed and Fashionable”: Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion
- Chapter Six. “We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs”: Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits
- Conclusions
- Conclusions
- Selected Bibliography
- Index