The Everyday and Private Life of a Communist Ruling Class: Greed and Creed (The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series)

Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Preface Confessional Notes Acknowledgments Acronyms Chapter 1: Consumption, Consumerism, and Demand-Side Abundance The Consumer Citizen of State Socialism Consumers for Export? Critical Sociology and the Acquisitive Society Notes Chapter 2: New Sobriety: Comrade Kucsera and His Legacy Notes Chapter 3: The Acquisitive Functionary In the Mirror of Party Disciplinary Procedures Kádár’s Social Contract and the Advent of Acquisitive Society The Functionary and the Rest: The Message of the Feature Film “Don’t Waste the Gas!” “DON’T WASTE THE GAS! GREAT HUNGARIAN DISSUADING FILM”19 Notes Chapter 4: Passion and Privilege: Functionaries Hunting Ruling Classes Rubbing Shoulders: The Budapest Hunting Expo of 1971 By now the reader must have grown curious: “Communists and hunting? Really?!” The Place of Hunting among the Pastimes of the Apparatus Class The Formal and Informal Organization of Hunting: The Curious Ways of Becoming a Club Member Multiple Club Memberships and Networks of Reciprocity The Political and Moral Economy of Hunting: Meat, Hierarchies, and Social Distinction Resources Appropriated Hierarchies and Social Distinction What Was, Then, In It, for Them? Notes Chapter 5: Holidays and Class Struggle under State Socialism Preludium: New Sobriety and the End of It The Challenge to and Struggle over Acquired Privileges The Reform Planned, Resolved, and Never Implemented Notes Chapter 6: Forgetting the Simple Art of Walking: The Social Order of Apparatus Mobility “Irresponsible Love of Comfort,” Sneaking Privatization, and Attempts at their Containment Containment by Yielding: Legitimate Private Appropriation from Bonus in Kind to Salary in Cash Who Is Afraid of Car-Sharing? Who Is Afraid of Collective Transport? From the Failure of Sharing Public Cars to the Success of Sharing Private Costs Chauffeurless Driving Private Cars “in the Party’s Service” Notes Conclusion Notes Bibliography ARCHIVAL SOURCES National Archives of Hungary (MOL) Budapest Capital City Archives (BFL) Open Society Archives, Budapest (OSA) Archives of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA LT) Mezőgazdasági Múzeum [Museum of Agrictulture, Budapest – MMB] Politikatörténeti és Szakszervezeti Levéltár (Archives of Political History and the Trade Unions, Budapest – SZKL) INTERVIEWS BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED SOURCES Index About the Author