Food & everyday life in the postsocialist world

Food & everyday life in the postsocialist world /

Across the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during the socialist period, food emerged as a symbol of both the successes and failures of socialist ideals of progress, equality, and modernity. This book explores the role played by food in the transformation of life in Russia and eastern Europe since th...

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Other Authors: Caldwell, Melissa L., 1969-, Dunn, Elizabeth C., 1968-, Nestle, Marion
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Geschichte 1990-2010.
Food habits > Europe, Eastern.
Food habits > Russia (Federation)
Food supply > Europe, Eastern.
Food supply > Russia (Federation)
Food consumption > Europe, Eastern.
Food consumption > Russia (Federation)
Post-communism > Europe, Eastern.
Post-communism > Russia (Federation)
Food consumption.
Food habits.
Food supply.
Post-communism.
Alltag.
Lebensmittel.
Eastern Europe.
Russia (Federation)
Osteuropa.
Former communist countries.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Table of Contents:
  • Food and everyday life after state socialism / Melissa L. Caldwell
  • From canned food to canny consumers : cultural competence in the age of mechanical production / Yuson Jung
  • Tale of the toxic paprika : the Hungarian taste of Euro-globalization / Zsuzsa Gille
  • Self-made women : informal dairy markets in Europeanizing Lithuania / Diana Mincyte
  • Tempest in a coffee pot : brewing incivility in Russia's public sphere / Melissa L. Caldwell
  • Geopolitics of taste : "Euro" and "Soviet" sausage industries in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė
  • Celebration of Masterstvo : professional cooking, culinary art, and cultural production in Russa / Stas Shectman
  • Social and gendered lives of vodka in rural Siberia / Katherine Metzo
  • Turnips and mangos : power and the edible state in Eastern Europe / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn.

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