1st Edition
Everyday Life under Communism and After Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945-2000
By Tibor Valuch
Copyright 2022
508 Pages
by
Central European University Press
By providing a survey of consumption and lifestyle in Hungary during the second half of the twentieth century, this book shows how common people lived during and after tumultuous regime changes. After an introduction covering the late 1930s, the study centers on the communist era, and goes on to describe changes in the post-communist period with its legacy of state socialism. Tibor Valuch... Read more
List of Figures, List of Tables, List of Acronyms, Introduction, Chapter One The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts, Chapter Two Two Hundred Peng?s a Month, Five Hundred Forints, Two Thousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life, Chapter Three From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption, Chapter Four This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space, and Interior Decoration, Chapter Five “Well-dressed and Fashionable”: Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion, Chapter Six “We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs”: Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits, Conclusions, Appendix, Bibliography, Index
Biography
Tibor Valuch is a social historian and research chair at the Center for Social Sciences, Institute of Political Science, Budapest. He is also professor at the Institute of History, Eszterházy Károly University, Eger.
