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Summary:

"The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people's varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all." -from publisher.

Table of Contents:

• Foreword: mapping heres and theres / Cristofer Scarboro
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: everyday postsocialism in Eastern Europe: continuities, ruptures, and alternative temporalities / Jill Massino and Markus Wien
• Part I: Socioeconomic transformations
• "People knew they wouldn't have to scrape dry chocolate if they called me in": industry, subjectivity, and the long transformation / Joanna Wawrzyniak
• How foreigners destroyed our factory: repressed memories of a Czech flagship sugar plant / Ondřej Klípa
• From risk to risky: Hungary's second economy and its transition the the market after 1989 / Annina Gagyiova
• Part II: the politics of exclusion
• "There's a lot of talk about tolerance, but that's just words": being gay in postsocialst Poland / Agnieszka Kościańska
• Reinventing postsocialsm as herteronationalism: (dis)continuities and frictive biopolitics in Orbán's Hungary / Hadley Z. Renkin
• Eradicating socialist internationalism: the expulsion of foreign students in postsocialist Bulgaria / Raia Apostolova
• Part II: Something old, somthing new
• The specter of sex: continuities and changes in sex education in postsocalist Romania / Beatrice Scutaru and Luciana Jinga
• No country for (poor) women: reproductive rights, conservatism, and neoliberalism in postsocialist Romania / Corina Doboș
• Part IV: origin stories
• The "turncoat" as a socialist form: tracing everyday moral grammars of justice in post-1989 East Germany and Czechia / Till Hilmar
• From steppe to state: alternative histories, amateur knowledge, and the search for origin in post-1989 Bulgaria / Victor Petrov
• "I'm an outsider, I'm an insider, and oh, how happy I am": narratives of former communist party members in Hungary / Sándor Horváth
• Part V: home is where the heart is
• Children of the wende: everyday experiences of the postsocialist transformation in (East) Germany / Friederike Kind-Kovács

• Out of sight but not out of mind: the Romanian diaspora and politics at home / Sergiu Gherghina and Raluca Farcas
• Contributors
• Index

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Contributors:

Massino, Jill , editor, contributor

Wien, Markus , editor, contributor

Apostolova, Raia , contributor

Doboș, Corina, 1980- , contributor

Farcus, Raluca (Political scientist) , contributor

Gagyiova, Annina , contributor

Gherghina, Sergiu , contributor

Hilmar, Till, 1985- , contributor

Horváth, Sándor, 1974- , contributor

Jinga, Luciana Marioara , contributor

Kind-Kovács, Friederike, 1978- , contributor

Klípa, Ondřej , contributor

Kościańska, Agnieszka , contributor

Petrov, Victor, 1987- , contributor

Renkin, Hadley Z. , contributor

Scarboro, Cristofer, 1972- , contributor

Scutaru, Beatrice , contributor

Wawrzyniak, Joanna, 1975- , contributor

Purdue University Press , publisher

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe [by Massino, J.] (West Lafayette, IN : Purdue University Press,c2024 — ISBN 9781612499697)

Related Series:

Central European studies

Subjects:

Socialism

Europe, Eastern — History — 1989-

Europe, Eastern — Social conditions — 1989-

General Notes:

Includes index (pages 277-283).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 283 pages) : illustrations.

Call Numbers:

HN380.7.A8 E947 2024eb

ISBNs:

1612499694
9781612499710 (epub)
1612499716
9781612499727 (epdf )
9781612499703 (paperback) [Invalid]
9781612499697 (hardback) [Invalid]
1612499724 (epdf )
1612499708 (paperback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1458667993