Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction
Jill Massino (editor-in-chief), Markus Wien (editor-in-chief), Raia Apostolova (other), Corina Dobos (other), Raluca Farcus (other), Annina Gagyiova (other), Sergiu Gherghina (other), Till Hilmar (other), Sandor Horvath (other), Luciana Marioara Jinga (other), Friederike Kind-Kovacs (other), Ondrej Klipa (other), Agnieszka Koscianska (other), Victor Petrov (other), Hadley Z. Renkin (other), Cristofer Scarboro (other), Beatrice Scutaru (other), Joanna Wawrzyniak (other), Purdue University Press (other)
Hardback Published on: 15/09/2024
Price: £80.00
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Synopsis
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.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Purdue University Press
- ISBN: 9781612499697
- Number of pages: 304
- Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18 mm
- Weight: 576g
- Languages: English