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1st ed.

Budapest : Central European University Press, 2022

1 online resource (510 pages)

ISBN 9789633863770 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9789633863763

Print version: Valuch, Tibor Everyday Life under Communism and After Budapest : Central European University Press,c2022 ISBN 9789633863763

Cover -- Front matter -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- Chapter One: The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts -- About the sources used for this volume -- The concept of daily life, correlations between lifestyle and changes in society -- Chapter Two: Two Hundred Pengős a Month, Five Hundred Forints, TwoThousand Forints…: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life -- National revenue, real wages, and changes in the standard of living -- Wages, prices, inequalities -- Unchanging and changing forms of poverty -- Accumulating property and wealth -- Chapter Three: From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption -- Consumption and consumer attitudes -- The corner store, the supermarket, and the shopping center: Changes in the locations of consumer consumption -- Homes, home construction, furnishings, and durable goods -- Clothing and the consumption of apparel -- The consumption and supply of foodstuffs -- Chapter Four: This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living Space and Interior Decoration -- The general characteristics determining housing and the state of urban housing -- Village houses, village dwellings -- For those without a home: apartments for rent, beds to let, and work dormitories -- Living in dire straits-slums, shantytowns, and ghettos -- The general characteristics of changes in home interiors -- Working-class and middle-class homes -- Rural and peasant interiors -- The interior world of Soviet-type housing estates -- Summer and weekend homes -- Chapter Five: "Well-dressed and Fashionable": Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion.

Need and puritanism: rural and urban styles of dress in the mid-twentieth century -- Fashion and dressing habits during the state socialist period: changes in norms for everyday and formal occasions -- Up-to-date fashion and the re-differentiation of apparel at the end of the century -- Chapter Six: "We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs": Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits -- The general characteristics of eating habits -- From starvation to "goulash communism" -- The years of "feeling full" -- Abundance and shortages after the fall of the Iron Curtain -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back cover.

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List of Figures ix // List of Tables xiii // List of Acronyms xv // Introduction 1 // Chapter One // The Study of Hungarian Everyday Life: Historiography, Methods, and Concepts 7 // About the sources used for this volume 12 // The concept of daily life, correlations between lifestyle and changes in society 15 // Chapter Two // Two Hundred Pengos a Month, Five Hundred Forints, Two / Thousand Forints...: Financial Circumstances, Prices, Wages, and Income Inequalities in Everyday Life 33 // National revenue, real wages, and changes in the standard of living 33 // Wages, prices, inequalities 43 // Unchanging and changing forms of poverty 59 // Accumulating property and wealth 69 // Chapter Three // From Plentiful Privation to a Consumer Society: The Changes and Characteristics of Consumer Consumption 87 // Consumption and consumer attitudes 87 // The corner store, the supermarket, and the shopping center: Changes in the locations of consumer constimption 116 // Homes, home construction, furnishings, and durable goods 129 // Clothing and the consumption of apparel 143 // The consumption and supply of foodstuffs 182 // Chapter Four // This Is How We Lived: Housing Conditions, Usage of Living // Space, and Interior Decoration 233 // The general characteristics determining housing and the state of urban housing 233 // Village houses, village dwellings 255 // For those without a home: apartments for rent, beds to let, and work dormitories 272 //

Living in dire straits-slums, shantytowns, and ghettos 279 // The general characteristics of changes in home interiors 289 // Working-class and middle-class homes 292 // Rural and peasant interiors 303 // The interior world of Soviet-type housing estates 310 // Summer and weekend homes 314 // Chapter Five // "Well-dressed and Fashionable": Changes in Clothing Styles, Habits, and Fashion 317 // Need and puritanism: rural and urban styles of dress in the mid-twentieth century 317 // Fashion and dressing habits during the state socialist period: changes in norms for everyday and formal occasions 338 // Up-to-date fashion and the re-differentiation of apparel at the end of the century 407 // Chapter Six // "We Ate, We Drank, We Filled Our Stomachs": Nutrition, Eating, and Dietary Habits 415 // The general characteristics of eating habits 415 // From starvation to "goulash communism" 416 // The years of "feeling full" 449 // Abundance and shortages after the fall of the Iron Curtain 466 // Conclusions 469 // Appendix 477 // Bibliography 479 // Index 487

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