The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
	Confessional
	Notes
Acknowledgments
Acronyms
Chapter 1: Consumption, Consumerism, and Demand-Side Abundance
	The Consumer Citizen of State Socialism
	Consumers for Export?
	Critical Sociology and the Acquisitive Society
	Notes
Chapter 2: New Sobriety: Comrade Kucsera and His Legacy
	Notes
Chapter 3: The Acquisitive Functionary
	In the Mirror of Party Disciplinary Procedures
	Kádár’s Social Contract and the Advent of Acquisitive Society
	The Functionary and the Rest: The Message of the Feature Film “Don’t Waste the Gas!”
	“DON’T WASTE THE GAS! GREAT HUNGARIAN DISSUADING FILM”19
	Notes
Chapter 4: Passion and Privilege: Functionaries Hunting
	Ruling Classes Rubbing Shoulders: The Budapest Hunting Expo of 1971
	By now the reader must have grown curious: “Communists and hunting? Really?!”
	The Place of Hunting among the Pastimes of the Apparatus Class
		The Formal and Informal Organization of Hunting: The Curious Ways of Becoming a Club Member
			Multiple Club Memberships and Networks of Reciprocity
	The Political and Moral Economy of Hunting: Meat, Hierarchies, and Social Distinction
		Resources Appropriated
			Hierarchies and Social Distinction
			What Was, Then, In It, for Them?
	Notes
Chapter 5: Holidays and Class Struggle under State Socialism
	Preludium: New Sobriety and the End of It
	The Challenge to and Struggle over Acquired Privileges
	The Reform Planned, Resolved, and Never Implemented
	Notes
Chapter 6: Forgetting the Simple Art of Walking: The Social Order of Apparatus Mobility
	“Irresponsible Love of Comfort,” Sneaking Privatization, and Attempts at their Containment
	Containment by Yielding: Legitimate Private Appropriation from Bonus in Kind to Salary in Cash
	Who Is Afraid of Car-Sharing?
	Who Is Afraid of Collective Transport?
	From the Failure of Sharing Public Cars to the Success of Sharing Private Costs
		Chauffeurless Driving
		Private Cars “in the Party’s Service”
	Notes
Conclusion
	Notes
Bibliography
	ARCHIVAL SOURCES
		National Archives of Hungary (MOL)
		Budapest Capital City Archives (BFL)
		Open Society Archives, Budapest (OSA)
		Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA LT)
		Mezőgazdasági Múzeum [Museum of Agrictulture, Budapest – MMB]
		Politikatörténeti és Szakszervezeti Levéltár (Archives of Political History and the Trade Unions, Budapest – SZKL)
	INTERVIEWS
	BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED SOURCES
Index
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