Alienating labour : workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary / Eszter Bartha.
The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the 'masses' with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York ; Oxford :
Berghahn,
2013.
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| Series: | International studies in social history
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| Online Access: | JSTOR Open Access |
| Summary: | The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the 'masses' with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide the key to understanding of the collapse of the regimes. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 362 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-333) and index. |