Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1: Creating the Theft Economy, 1945–1957
Philip Scranton, "Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1: Creating the Theft Economy, 1945–1957 "
English | ISBN: 3030891836 | 2022 | 329 pages | PDF | 5 MB
English | ISBN: 3030891836 | 2022 | 329 pages | PDF | 5 MB
This study aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary), within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture, infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry (Volume 1: Creating the Theft Economy, 1945-1957) through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods (Volume 2: From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957-1972, forthcoming 2023). It provides hundreds of grounded, granular stories for reflection, as reported by actors and direct observers, ranging from innovation and improvisation to obstruction, failure, and fraud. Further, it offers an otherwise-unobtainable close encounter with another world, familiar in some respects while amazingly peculiar in others.
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