Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary : experiences of a generation that lived during the socialist era
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Symbolic traces of communist legacy in post-socialist Hungary : experiences of a generation that lived during the socialist era
(Central and Eastern Europe : regional perspectives in global context, v. 7)
Brill, c2016
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-212) and index
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In Symbolic Traces of Communist Legacy in Post-socialist Hungary, Lisa Pope Fischer shows how personal practices symbolically refurbish elements from the Communist era to fit present-day challenges. A generation who lived through the socialist period adapt to post-socialist Hungary in a global context. Life histories weave together case studies of gift giving, procurement strategies, harvest ritual, healthcare, and socialist kitsch to illustrate turns towards mysticism, neo-traditionalism, nostalgia, nationalism, and shifts in time-place. People's unrequited past longing for future possibilities of a Western society facilitate desires for a lost way of life. Not only does this work gain understanding of an aging population's life experiences and the politics of everyday practices, but also social change in a modern global world.
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