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PublisherHistorical Materialism
ISBN-101608464776
ISBN-139781608464777
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Book TitleFrom the Vanguard to the Margins : Workers in Hungary, 1939 to the Present: Selected Essays by Mark Pittaway
Number of Pages333 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEurope / Austria & Hungary, Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism, Social History
Publication Year2015
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, History
AuthorMark Pittaway
Book SeriesHistorical Materialism Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Weight17.6 Oz
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Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal305.56209439
Table Of ContentAcknowledgements. Abbreviations Introduction By Adam B. Fabry 1 Crisis, War and Occupation 2 Building Socialism 3 The Reproduction of Hierarchy: Skill, Working-Class Culture, and the State in Early Socialist Hungary 4 The Social Limits of State Control: Time, the Industrial Wage Relation, and Social Identity in Stalinist Hungary, 1948-53 5 Retreat from Collective Protest: Household, Gender, Work and Popular Opposition in Stalinist Hungary 6 The Revolution and Industrial Workers: The Disintegration and Reconstruction of Socialism, 1953-58 7 Accommodation and the Limits of Economic Reform: Industrial Workers during the Making and Unmaking of Kádár's Hungary 8 Research in Hungarian Archives on Post-1945 History 9 Making Peace in the Shadow of War: The Austrian-Hungarian Borderlands, 1945-56 10 Workers and the Change of System 11 Fascism in Hungary 12 Towards a Social History of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary Epilogue By Nigel Swain References Inde
SynopsisFrom the Vanguard to the Margins is dedicated to the work of the late British historian, Dr Mark Pittaway (1971-2010), a prominent scholar of post-war and contemporary Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Breaking with orthodox readings on Eastern bloc regimes, which remain wedded to the 'totalitarianism' paradigm of the Cold War era, the essays in this volume shed light on the contradictory historical and social trajectory of 'real socialism' in the region. Mainstream historiography has presented Stalinist parties as 'omnipotent', effectively stripping workers and society in general of its 'relative autonomy'. Building on an impressive amount of archive material, Pittaway convincingly shows how dynamics of class, gender, skill level, and rural versus urban location, shaped politics in the period., Mark Pittaway was the pre-eminent historian of contemporary Hungary. This volume collects his most important work.
