Negotiating Normality Everyday Lives in Socialist Institutions

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English | ISBN: 1412855837 | 2015 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
This book is about state socialism, not as a political system, but as an "ecosystem" of interactions between the state and the citizens it sought to control. It includes case studies that demonstrate how the major ideological principles of socialism translated into motives guiding people’s lives.

This unique post-revisionist study focuses on people’s lives and experiences rather than political systems. The studies are grouped around three common elements―socialist labor, the new socialist man, and the socialist way of life. Using first-hand accounts, the authors find minute deviations from the norms that eventually lead to renegotiation of the norms themselves. Focusing on routines, not extremes, they present socialism in its "normal" state.
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