商品簡介
This volume of ten essays examines several ways that ordinary people living under Soviet rule in Eastern Europe (1945-1989) escaped into cultural and consumerist oases. The contributors argue that these "escapes" poked holes in the state regime of ideological conformity that contributed to its eventual downfall. They're organized into five sections on sports, road-trips and mass-mobility, beach parties, socialist summer-camp and wilder excursions, and museums and concert halls. Cases come from Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, and other East European countries to a lesser degree. A concluding essay summarizes the significance for Soviet studies of how ordinary people confound the usual binary opposition of state and people. The contributors are professors of history and east European studies from the US and Europe, as well as academic researchers and writers about Cold War history. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Alexander Vari is Associate Professor of Modern European History at Marywood University.
