What does the Good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in Western countries, Socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers\' needs.
Moving beyond binaries of production and consumption, the essays collected here examine the lessons consumption studies can offer about ethnic and national identity and the role of economic.
What does the Good life mean in a "backward" place? As communist regimes denigrated widespread unemployment and consumer excess in Western countries, Socialist Eastern European states simultaneously legitimized their power through their apparent ability to satisfy consumers\' needs