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Description
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.
ISBN
9781612499727
Publication Date
Fall 9-15-2024
Publisher
Purdue University Press
City
West Lafayette
Keywords
Eastern Europe, Postsocialism, Socialism, Communism, Postcommunism, transition, transformation, Revolutions of 1989, Liberal Democracy, Neoliberalism, Berlin Wall, Real Existing postsocialism
Disciplines
European History | History | Political Science | Social History
Recommended Citation
Massino, Jill and Wien, Markus, "Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction" (2024). Central European Studies. 9.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/ces/9
Comments
Open access publication of this title is supported by Purdue University Libraries and School of Information Studies.