Negotiating Normality

Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions

AvDaniela Koleva

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

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This book is about state socialism, not as a political system, but as an "ecosystem" of interactions between the state and the citizens it sought to control. It includes case studies that demonstrate how the major ideological principles of socialism translated into motives guiding people's lives.This unique post-revisionist study focuses on people's lives and experiences rather than political systems. The studies are grouped around three common elements—socialist labor, the new socialist man, and the socialist way of life. Using first-hand accounts, the authors find minute deviations from the norms that eventually lead to renegotiation of the norms themselves. Focusing on routines, not extremes, they present socialism in its "normal" state.The volume demonstrates different national strategies for dealing with the past in the post-socialist world. Studies of the socialist past may strive to be objective, but their messages tend to be complex. Rather than arriving at one truth about the nature of socialism, this volume explores the many ways people have survived the system.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-07-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:453 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Memory and Narrative
Antal sidor:270
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Inc
ISBN:9781412846011

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Daniela Koleva is associate professor at the department of history and theory of culture, St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia. Her research interests are in the fields of oral history and anthropology of socialism and the post-socialist transformations, public and personal memory, biographical research, gender, ethnic, and religious identities. She has published widely on these topics in international peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes, in addition to two monographs in Bulgarian and a few edited volumes in Bulgarian and English.

Innehållsförteckning

IntroductionSocialist Normality: Euphemization of Power or Profanation of Power?Daniela Koleva1. "Living and Working Together": Formal and Personal Relations Between Workers of the Polish State-Owned FarmsEwelina Szpak2. "Women Workers" in Hungary: Identities and Everyday Lives (Microhistorical Analysis of Life-Story Interviews)Eszter Zsofia Toth3. Yesterday's Heroes: Spinning Webs of Memory in a Postsocialist Textile Factory in SloveniaNina Vodopivec4. Negotiating Spare Time: Magic at Work in the Everyday Life of a Bulgarian Socialist SchoolNadezhda Galabova5. Contested Normality: Negotiating Masculinity in Narratives of Service in the Yugoslav People's ArmyTanja Petrovi6. Experiencing Socialism: Female Singers in Southeastern SerbiaAna Hofman7. Eating Well in Times of Scarcity: Reactions, Perceptions, and Negotiation of Shortages in 1980s' RomaniaSimina Bdic8. Resistance in Consumption: In Search of a Negotiating AgentValentina Gueorguieva9. Housing as a Norm and as an Everyday Life Strategy in Communist Czechoslovakia (1968–89)Hana Pelikanova10. The Indifferent, the Obedient, and the Adjusted: Three Women's Narratives about Socialism in CroatiaSanja PotkonjakThe AuthorsIndex