This book is a comparative framework for interpreting the relationship between late Stalinism and the communist takeovers in former Eastern Europe. A bonus for the volume is that it also provides detailed, sectorial analyses for the Romanian case, something that the field partic…
Politics between East and West -- Protest without borders : recontextualization of protest cultures -- The media-staging of protest -- Discourses of liberation and violence -- Epilogue -- Chronology: The European 1968.
"Communism Unwrapped reveals the complex world of consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe, exploring the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, assessed, and exchanged goods. These everyday experiences, the editors and contributors argue, were central to the w…