Negotiating Normality: Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions
Cover Page -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction Socialist Normality: Euphemization of Power or Profanation of Power? -- 1. "Living and Working Together": Formal and Personal Relations Between Workers of the Polish State-Owned Farms -- 2. "Women Workers" in Hungary: Identities and Everyday Lives (Microhistorical Analysis of Life-Story Interviews) -- 3. Yesterday's Heroes: Spinning Webs of Memory in a Postsocialist Textile Factory in Slovenia -- 4. Negotiating Spare Time: Magic at Work in the Everyday Life of a Bulgarian Socialist School -- 5. Contested Normality: Negotiating Masculinity in Narratives of Service in the Yugoslav People's Army -- 6. Experiencing Socialism: Female Singers in Southeastern Serbia -- 7. Eating Well in Times of Scarcity: Reactions, Perceptions, and Negotiation of Shortages in 1980s' Romania -- 8. Resistance in Consumption: In Search of a Negotiating Agent -- 9. Housing as a Norm and as an Everyday Life Strategy in Communist Czechoslovakia (1968-89) -- 10. The Indifferent, the Obedient, and the Adjusted: Three Women's Narratives about Socialism in Croatia -- The Authors -- Index.