Alienating labour workers on the road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary

The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy-successful at the outset-in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working clas...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bartha, Eszter (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books 2013.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
International studies in social history ; 22.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b44343577*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : Welfare dictatorships, the working class and socialist ideology : a theoretical and methodological outline
  • 1968 and the working class : "What do we get out of socialism?" the reform of enterprise management in East Germany and Hungary
  • Workers in the welfare dictatorships
  • Workers and the party
  • Contrasting the memory of the Kádár and Honecker regimes
  • Conclusion : Squaring the circle? the end of the welfare dictatorships in the GDR and Hungary.