@article{1471796,
      recid = {1471796},
      author = {Bartha, Eszter, and Krausz, Tamás, and Mezei, Bálint,},
      title = {State socialism in Eastern Europe : history, theory,  anti-capitalist alternatives /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxi, 334 pages).},
      note = {The Rise and Fall of Red Halas, 1944-2019},
      abstract = {This volume brings together a diverse set of scholars to  address the long theoretical, conceptual and political  debate on the interpretation of actually existing socialism  in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. While the major  paradigms totalitarianism, neo-totalitarianism,  revisionism, post-revisionism, modernization, and the  world-system analysis are well known in the Western  (English-language) literature, the concept of state  socialism, which has strong theoretical roots in Hungary  (going back to the works of Gyrgy Lukcs and Istvn Mszros)  received less international attention. This book  contributes to a productive discussion about viable  alternatives to capitalism by introducing and theoretically  elaborating on the concept and practice of state socialism,  highlighting the historical significance of Hungarys  experiment with the new economic mechanism of 1968. It  generates a common point of reference for various  generations of anti-systemic thinkers, scholars, and  activists to move beyond Cold War simplifications and  ideological divides, and contributes to the discussion  about anti-capitalist alternatives, which are relevant  today for the global left. The chapter Dance Around a  Sacred Cow: Womens Night Work and the Gender Politics of  the Mass Worker in State-Socialist Hungary and  Internationally is available open access under a Creative  Commons Attribution-NonCommercial- NoDerivatives 4.0  International License via link.springer.com. Eszter Bartha  is Associate Professor at Etvs Lornd University, Budapest,  Hungary. She has published extensively on the state  socialist era and the working class. Tams Krausz is  Professor Emeritus at Etvs Lornd University, Budapest,  Hungary. He is an internationally renowned scholar of the  Soviet and Russian history in the 20th century, with a  special focus on the history of left-wing ideas. Blint  Mezei is Associate Professor at Etvs Lornd University,  Budapest, Hungary. The main subjects of his publications  are the interparty relations of the Hungarian Socialist  Workers' Party, Eurocommunism and studies based on oral  history. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1471796},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22504-8},
}