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The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring

Title: The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring / Paulina Bren.
Author: Bren, Paulina.
Publication: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

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Description

xiii, 250 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.

Contents

"A criminal comedy but of a revivalist spirit" : the beginning and the end of the Prague Spring -- Purge and the remaking of a socialist citizenry -- Intellectuals, hysterics, and "real men" : the Prague Spring officially remembered -- The quiet life versus a life in truth : writing the script for normalization -- Broadcasting in the age of late communism -- Jaroslav Dietl : normalization's narrator -- The socialist family and its caretakers -- Self-realization and the socialist way of life.

Call Number

JFE 10-3024

ISBN

9780801447679 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801447674 (cloth : alk. paper)
0801476429
9780801476426

LCCN

2009034776

OCLC

YBP 2009034776

Author

Bren, Paulina.

Title

The greengrocer and his TV : the culture of communism after the 1968 Prague Spring / Paulina Bren.

Imprint

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2010.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-245) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 10-3024

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