Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: History Doesn't Travel in One Direction (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781612499703)

The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments. Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes and people's varied experiences of them. The featured narratives complicate hegemonic representations of transformation, revealing ruptures and continuities, progress and reversals. Highlighting the multi-directionality of change over the last thirty years, the book reappraises 1989 as an epochal event for all.

Author: Jill Massino
ISBN-10: 1612499708
ISBN-13: 9781612499703
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2024
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback