Everyday Life under Communism and After
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Everyday Life under Communism and After

Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000

  1. 500 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Everyday Life under Communism and After

Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000

About this book

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 describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism.

Tibor Valuch poses a series of questions. Who could be called rich or poor and how did they live in the various periods? How did living, furnishings, clothing, income, and consumption mirror the structure of the society and its transformations? How could people accommodate their lifestyles to the political and social system? How specific to the regime was consumption after the communist takeover, and how did consumption habits change after the demise of state socialism? The answers, based on micro-histories, statistical data, population censuses and surveys help to understand the complexities of daily life, not only in Hungary, but also in other communist regimes in east-central Europe, with insights on their antecedents and afterlives.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front matter
  3. Contents
  4. List of Figures
  5. List of Tables
  6. List of Acronyms
  7. Introduction
  8. Chapter One: The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts
  9. Chapter Two: Two Hundred Pengős a Month, Five Hundred Forints, TwoThousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, a d Income Inequalities in Everyday Life
  10. National revenue, real wages, and changes in the standard of living
  11. Wages, prices, inequalities
  12. Unchanging and changing forms of poverty
  13. Accumulating property and wealth
  14. Chapter Three: From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption
  15. Chapter Four: This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space and Interior Decoration
  16. Chapter Five: “Well-dressed and Fashionable”: Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion
  17. Chapter Six: “We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs”: Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits
  18. Conclusions
  19. Appendix
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Back cover