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De-Stalinization and the House of Culture Declining State Control over Leisure in the USSR, Poland and Hungary, 1953–1989

By Anne White Copyright 1990
208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

208 Pages
by Routledge

De-Stalinization and the House of Culture (1990) looks at the houses of culture – arts centres which in the Stalinist period functioned as agencies of political socialisation – and the changes in their character and functions since Stalin’s death. This book explores the diminishing control of the Communist Party over public leisure from 1953 to the present day, as one aspect of the... Read more

1. De-Stalinization, Ideology and Leisure Policy  2. A Brief History of Cultural Enlightenment  3. Changing Content – Changing Goals?  4. Policy and Practice 1: Party and State  5. Policy and Practice 2: House of Culture Staff and the Public  6. The Effectiveness of Cultural Enlightenment  7. Conclusions: the Death of Communist Cultural Enlightenment?

Biography

Anne White studied History and Russian at the University of Oxford before lecturing at the Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland. After gaining her PhD at the London School of Economics and Political Science she was Lecturer in Russian, then Senior Lecturer in Russian and East European Studies, University of Bath, 1987–2014, before being appointed Professor of Polish Studies and Social and Political Science, SSEES, UCL.