State Socialism in Eastern Europe History, Theory, Anti-capitalist Alternatives

It generates a common point of reference for various generations of anti-systemic thinkers, scholars, and activists to move beyond Cold War simplifications and ideological divides, and contributes to the discussion about anti-capitalist alternatives, which are relevant today for the global left. The...

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Other Authors: Bartha, Eszter (Editor), Krausz, Tamás (Editor), Mezei, Bálint (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Palgrave Macmillan 2023, 2023
Edition:1st ed. 2023
Series:Marx, Engels, and Marxisms
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Part I: A third road in Eastern Europe?
  • Chapter 2. The interdependence of socialist Hungary’s external and internal balances: The bridge model and the consolidation of the Kádár era (Tamás Gerőcs and András Pinkasz)
  • Chapter 3. The neoliberalism as a legal project in state socialist Hungary (Attila Antal)
  • Chapter 4. Dance around a “sacred cow”: Women’s night work and the gender politics of the mass worker in state-socialist Hungary and internationally (Susan Zimmermann)
  • Chapter 5. Emancipated or excluded?: Women workers and the gender regime in state socialist Hungary (Eszter Bartha)
  • Part II: System change and the alternatives
  • Chapter 6. System change and property relations: On Soviet perestroika’s historical experiences (Tamás Krausz)
  • Chapter 7. The rise and fall of red Halas, 1944–2019 (Chris Hann)
  • Part III: The new canon
  • Chapter 8. Imagining state socialism in Slovakia after 1989: Public discourse and history education practices (Slávka Otčenášová)
  • Chapter 9. Between goulash Communism and dictatorship: The image of the Hungarian state socialism in secondary school textbooks (published after 1990) (Bálint Mezei)
  • Part IV: Concluding Essays
  • Chapter 10. The socialist transition in the materialist view of history and the state socialist systems (György Wiener)
  • Chapter 11. State socialist experiments – Historical lessons (Péter Szigeti)