The Socialist Good Life: Desire, Development, and Standards of Living in Eastern Europe

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Cover Title page Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgments 1. The Pleasures of Backwardness / Zsuzsa Gille, Cristofer Scarboro, and Diana Mincytė 2. Consuming Dialogues: Pleasure, Restraint, Backwardness, and Civilization in Eastern Europe / Mary Neuburger 3. Just Rewards: The Social Contract and Communism’s Hard Bargain with the Citizen-Consumer / Patrick Hyder Patterson 4. Conceptualizing Consumption in the Polish People’s Republic / Brian Porter-Szűcs 5. Oranges and the New Black: Importing, Provisioning, and Consuming Tropical Fruits and Coffee in the GDR, 1971–89 / Anne Dietrich 6. VCRs, Modernity, and Consumer Culture in Late State Socialist Poland / Patryk Wasiak 7. The Enchantment of Imaginary Europe: Consumer Practices in Post-Soviet Ukraine / Tania Bulakh 8. The Late Socialist Good Life and Its Discontents: Bit, Kultura, and the Social Life of Goods / Cristofer Scarboro 9. The Prosumerist Resonance Machine: Rethinking Political Subjectivity and Consumer Desire in State Socialism / Zsuzsa Gille and Diana Mincytė Index