Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary : experiences of a generation that lived during the socialist era /

Fischer, Lisa Pope, 1962-

Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary : experiences of a generation that lived during the socialist era / by Lisa Pope Fischer. - 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations. - Central and Eastern Europe ; 7 . - Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden, Netherlands) ; 7. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : "A ghost in the city": reinterpretations of communist past in post-socialist Hungary -- Globalized bonds: gift exchange, liminality, and embodiment -- Renegotiating procurement strategies: elderly women applying procurement strategies of the socialist era to the post-socialist condition -- Reclaiming folklore after communist era oppression: peasant folklore of the past asserted in the present -- Culture of communist past within the healthcare system: reorganizing healthcare and a mystification of the body -- "The kitschification of communist material culture: politics reinterpreted" -- Afterword : re-interpretation of social change: "I am not political".

9789004328648 (e-book)


Post-communism--Social aspects--Hungary.
Communism and culture--Hungary.
Hungarians--Social life and customs.
Hungarians--Social conditions--21st century.
Older people--Social conditions--Hungary--21st century.


Hungary--Social conditions--1945-1989.
Hungary--Social conditions--1989-


Electronic books.

HN420.5.A8 / F57 2016

306.09439