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A lot has been written concerning the workings of communist governments within the USSR and the Soviet bloc, but there's nonetheless very much to discover relating to their courting to the typical lives of the voters residing below them. This 3rd quantity builds at the editors’ kind and Socialism and Socialist areas, exhibiting how the increase of customer tradition took a different shape in those countries.
Essays from most sensible students tackle themes starting from type and online game exhibits to smoking and tenting. The authors of the essays during this assortment examine the ways that pleasant actions, like many different elements of way of life, have been either an area during which those communist governments attempted to insinuate themselves and thereby extra extend the achieve in their authority,and additionally a chance for individuals to claim their individuality.
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Leisure without labor was like dessert without savory; a fully human, rounded life consisted of both, not least because unalienated labor, quite unlike alienated drudgery under capitalism, was a path to self-realization. 103 The utopia of full communism was only loosely sketched in Soviet futurology, despite its hallowed position as the target of history’s arrow. 104 The Third Program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, promulgated in 1961 as a modern-day Communist Manifesto, announced that incremental reductions in the working week would take place over the next two decades, made possible by increased labor productivity.
On Plzeň, see Kevin McDermott, “Popular Resistance in Czechoslovakia: The Plzeň Uprising: June 1953,” forthcoming; and Samuel H. : Stanford University Press, 2001). On Łódż, see Padraic Kenney, “The Gender of Resistance in Communist Poland,” American Historical Review 104, no. 2 (April 1999): 399–425. 31. The paradoxical overproduction of luxuries at the expense of necessities was identified as a key problem of the Soviet planned economy under Khrushchev. Stockpiles of unwanted goods allegedly accumulating in the early 1960s included silk dresses, and jam and jelly.
A glance into any Soviet refrigerator from the 1960s to the 1990s would reveal that it was filled not with the products of an advanced food-processing industry but with jars of home-preserved fruits grown at the dacha or gathered in the forest, holdovers of a preindustrial subsistence economy. In assessing the impact of refrigerated domesticity on Soviet society, it is important to stress that it began to exercise social effects in advance of actually entering mass consumption. 93 The domestication and “demotion” of such erstwhile luxuries was due not only to their mass production but also to their reproduction as images in Soviet public culture.
