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Pleasures in socialism : leisure and luxury in the Eastern Bloc
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Pleasures in socialism : leisure and luxury in the Eastern Bloc

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Introduction: Pleasures in socialism? / David Crowley and Susan E. Reid
Luxury in socialism: an absurd proposition? / Ina Merkel
Kontra kultura: leisure and youthful rebellion in Stalinist Poland / Katherine Lebow
Dior in Moscow: a taste for luxury in Soviet fashion under Khrushchev / Larissa Zakharova
Soviet luxuries from champagne to private cars / Jukka Gronow and Sergei Zhuravlev
Playing for cultural authority: Soviet TV professionals and the game show in the 1950s and 1960s / Kristin Roth-Ey
Women on the verge of desire: women, work, and consumption in socialist Czechoslovakia / Paulina Bren
Camping in East Germany: making "rough" nature more comfortable / Scott Moranda
"Even under socialism, we don't want to do without love": East German erotica / Josie McLellan
Inhaling luxury: smoking and anti-smoking in socialist Bulgaria 1947-1989 / Mary Neuburger
Drink, leisure, and the second economy in socialist Romania / Narcis Tulbure
Soviet women and fur consumption in the Brezhnev era / Anna Tikhomirova
Nomenklatura with smoking guns: hunting in communist Hungary's party-state elite / Gyorgy Peteri.

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