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- ISBN
- 9783031239311
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Enterprise in Socialist Hungary : from Chaos to Contradiction, 1957-1972
- Item Length
- 8.3in
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing A&G
- Genre
- Business & Economics
- Topic
- Economic History, Management Science, Management
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Weight
- 23.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- Xxi, 402 Pages
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This book 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 through later reforms paying greater attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant consumer goods. 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.The social history of enterprise and work in postwar Central European nations "building socialism" has long been underdeveloped. Through extensive macro-level research on planning and policy in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other Bloc countries, a grand narrative has been framed: reconstruction and breakneck industrialization under Soviet tutelage; then eventual mismanagement, stagnation and crisis, leading to collapse. This book seeks to explore what socialism actually looked like to those sustaining (or enduring} it as they faced forward into an unknowable future, to assess how and where it did (or didn't) work, and to recount how ordinary people responded to its opportunities and constraints. This study will appeal to readers interested in a understanding how businesses worked day-to-day in a planned economy, how enterprise practices and technological strategies shifted during the first postwar generation, how novice managers and technicians emerged during rapid industrialization, how peasants learned to farm cooperatively, how organizations improvised and adapted, how political purity and practical expertise contended for control, and how the controversies and convulsions of the postwar decades shaped a deeply flawed project to "build socialism."
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing A&G
ISBN-10
3031239318
ISBN-13
9783031239311
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28058379265
Product Key Features
Book Title
Enterprise in Socialist Hungary : from Chaos to Contradiction, 1957-1972
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Economic History, Management Science, Management
Publication Year
2023
Genre
Business & Economics
Number of Pages
Xxi, 402 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.3in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
23.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Number of Volumes
1 Vol.
Lc Classification Number
Hd28-70
Volume Number
Vol. 2
Table of Content
Preface: The Terrible Twelve: Core Tasks for Socialist and Capitalist Enterprises.-Introduction: Hungary as Site and Process: Geography, History, and Society to 1945.- Chapter 1: Postwar Reconstruction and Forced Industrialization, 1946-56.- Chapter 2: Socializing Agriculture, 1957-66.- Chapter 3: Construction: The Infrastructure Dilemma, 1957-1966.- Chapter 4: Commerce: Transactions Without and With Markets, 1957-1966.- Chapter 5: Manufacturing: Concretizing A Great Illusion, 1957-1966.- Chapter 6: The New Economic Mechanism and Bureaucratic Resistance: 1966-1972.- Conclusion: Never Quite Socialist?.- A Note on Sources.
Copyright Date
2023
Dewey Decimal
330.9439053
Series
Palgrave Debates in Business History Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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