Rooms for Manoeuvre
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Rooms for Manoeuvre

Another Look at Negotiating Processes in the Socialist Bloc

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Rooms for Manoeuvre

Another Look at Negotiating Processes in the Socialist Bloc

About this book

The volume focuses on emerging "rooms for manoeuvre" in the socialist societies of Central and Eastern Europe after the Second World War. Unlike in other works, these areas of activity are not viewed as isolated spheres where citizens could act independently from political and societal constraints. They are rather conceptualized here as geographical, social or institutional spaces whose existence was either outside of political control or more or less intentionally allowed by authorities and other decision-makers. The contributions investigate how East Germans, Poles, Romanians, Slovaks and Czechs coped with the limitations of socialist reality. How did they adopt and successfully adapt given norms to their own specific interests? To what extent were the resulting "rooms for manoeuvre" not only essential aspects of the state socialist system, but even necessary to stabilize it?

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Yes, you can access Rooms for Manoeuvre by Jerzy Kochanowski, Jerzy Kochanowski, Claudia Kraft, Jerzy Kochanowski,Claudia Kraft in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Economic History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
V&R Unipress
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9783847113362
eBook ISBN
9783847013365
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Economic History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Body
  5. Preface
  6. Jerzy Kochanowski / Claudia Kraft: Introduction: “Rooms for Manoeuvre” – a New Paradigm for the Research of State Socialist Societies
  7. Part I: Socialist Space-Time
  8. Maria Hetzer: Negotiating Economic Development and Everyday Needs in Rural GDR and Beyond
  9. Martin Jemelka: The Unified Cooperative Farm – Agrocombine Sluovice: Genesis, Tradition, Interpretation
  10. Juraj Buzalka: Room to Manoeuvre under State Socialism and the Memory of Livelihood
  11. Part II: Peripheries
  12. Duan Sege: A Failed “Marriage”: The Attitude of the Peasants and the Government Toward the First Stage of Collectivisation i the Preov Region (1949–1953)
  13. Jerzy Kochanowski: A ˋFree City'? The Zakopane of Władysław Gomułka, 1956–1970
  14. Błażej Brzostek: “Spaces for Freedom” of the Romanian Littoral Zone 1960–1980
  15. Markus Krzoska: The Devastation of Villages in the German-Polish Lignite Mining Region of Zittau-Bogatynia between 1980 and 2000. Opportunity or Threat for Local Residents?
  16. Part III: Privacy in State Socialism
  17. Jakub Gałęziowski: Single Mothers and Their Babies in Poland in 1945–1949. The Social Care System vs. Female Freedom and Subjectivity
  18. Barbara Klich-Kluczewska: Far from a Children's Home. Adoption and the Question of Individual Agency in the People's Republic of Poland
  19. Maria Buko: Repressed Personality – Privacy as a Room for Manoeuvre of Sybiraks in the Polish People's Republic
  20. Part IV: Rooms for Experts
  21. Matthias Barelkowski: Communication with‍(out) Borders? Amateur Radio in the Peoples Republic of Poland – From Personal Hobby to Social Imperative and State Surveillance
  22. Theodore R. Weeks: Esperanto in People's Poland: Internationalism, Public Space, Propaganda
  23. Authors