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|a The collapse of state socialism ushered in dramatic political and economic change, producing new freedoms and opportunities, but also new challenges and disappointments.Focusing on laborers, professionals, youth, women, sexual minorities, foreign students, and emigrants, Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe explores these multifaceted changes. Cover -- EVERYDAY POSTSOCIALISM IN EASTERN EUROPE -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Foreword: Mapping Heres and Theres -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Everyday Postsocialism in Eastern Europe: Continuities, Ruptures, and Alternative Temporalities -- PART I: SOCIOECONOMIC TRANSFORMATIONS -- 1. "People Knew They Wouldn't Have to Scrape Dry Chocolate if They Called Me In": Industry, Subjectivity, and the Long Transformation -- 2. How Foreigners Destroyed our Factory: Repressed Memories of a Czech Flagship Sugar Plant -- 3. From Risk to Risky: Hungary's Second Economy and Its Transition to the Market after 1989 -- PART II: THE POLITICS OF EXCLUSION -- 4. "There's a Lot of Talk About Tolerance, but That's Just Words": Being Gay in Postsocialist Poland -- 5. Reinventing Postsocialism as Heteronationalism: (Dis)continuities and Frictive Biopolitics in Orbán's Hungary -- 6. Eradicating Socialist Internationalism: The Expulsion of Foreign Students in Postsocialist Bulgaria -- PART III: SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW -- 7. The Specter of Sex: Continuities and Changes in Sex Education in Postsocialist Romania -- 8. No Country for (Poor) Women: Reproductive Rights, Conservatism, and Neoliberalism in Postsocialist Romania -- PART IV: ORIGIN STORIES -- 9. The "Turncoat" as a Social Form: Tracing Everyday Moral Grammars of Justice in Post-1989 East Germany and Czechia -- 10. From Steppe to State: Alternative Histories, Amateur Knowledge, and the Search for Origin in Post-1989 Bulgaria -- 11. "I'm An Outsider, I'm An Insider, And Oh, How Happy I Am": Narratives of Former Communist Party Members in Hungary -- PART V: HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS -- 12. Children of the Wende: Everyday Experiences of the Postsocialist Transformation in (East) Germany -- 13. Out of Sight but Not Out of Mind: The Romanian Diaspora and Politics at Home -- Contributors.
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