Since the collapse of state socialism 1 in Eastern and Central Europe twenty years ago, a
good deal of scholarship has been devoted to the issue of gender and the transition. 2 …

The Mézga Family is an animated television series that ran for three seasons in Hungary
between 1970 and 1980 (produced between 1968 and 1978). In the first season, the …

Teréz, 2 the woman quoted above, was a forty-two-year-old quality control officer when, in
1970, her workers brigade,“Liberation,” was awarded the State Prize. 3 When I asked her …

Abstract The Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) was an autocratic regime governed
by the state party (Hungarian Working People's Party; from 1956 on: Hungarian Socialist …

This article explores how working-class women who belonged to the prize-winning
Liberation Brigade of the Budapest Hosiery Factory in the 1970s represented their identities …

While the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party was on the rhetorical level committed to the
Soviet agitation and propaganda model, in practice it increasingly deviated from it during the …

A magyar közvéleményben és a társadalomtudományban hosszú ideje jelen van az a
meggyőződés, hogy az 1956-os forradalom leverését követően a Kádár-rendszer …

In the field of consumption history there is growing interest in informal shopping practices,
smuggling, and black-market activities in state socialist societies. Yet, little emphasis has …

My thesis examines the changing emphasis in reproductive policies during the state socialist
Hungary. First, by applying the theoretical framework of politics of reproduction I analyze …

Auf den ersten Blick hatten ungarische Historiker, die sich mit der unmittelbaren
Vergangenheit befaßten, hauptsächlich Revolutionen im Blick: diejenige von 1848/49 …