1st Edition
Negotiating Normality Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions
Introduction
Socialist Normality: Euphemization of Power or Profanation of Power?
Daniela Koleva
1. "Living and Working Together": Formal and Personal Relations Between Workers of the Polish State-Owned Farms
Ewelina Szpak
2. "Women Workers" in Hungary: Identities and Everyday Lives (Microhistorical Analysis of Life-Story Interviews)
Eszter Zsofia Toth
3. Yesterday's Heroes: Spinning Webs of Memory in a Postsocialist Textile Factory in Slovenia
Nina Vodopivec
4. Negotiating Spare Time: Magic at Work in the Everyday Life of a Bulgarian Socialist School
Nadezhda Galabova
5. Contested Normality: Negotiating Masculinity in Narratives of Service in the Yugoslav People's Army
Tanja Petrovi
6. Experiencing Socialism: Female Singers in Southeastern Serbia
Ana Hofman
7. Eating Well in Times of Scarcity: Reactions, Perceptions, and Negotiation of Shortages in 1980s' Romania
Simina Bdic
8. Resistance in Consumption: In Search of a Negotiating Agent
Valentina Gueorguieva
9. Housing as a Norm and as an Everyday Life Strategy in Communist Czechoslovakia (1968–89)
Hana Pelikanova
10. The Indifferent, the Obedient, and the Adjusted: Three Women's Narratives about Socialism in Croatia
Sanja Potkonjak
The Authors
Index
Biography
Daniela Koleva
