@article{1471796, note = {The Rise and Fall of Red Halas, 1944-2019}, author = {Bartha, Eszter, and Krausz, Tamás, and Mezei, Bálint,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1471796}, title = {State socialism in Eastern Europe : history, theory, anti-capitalist alternatives /}, 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. .}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-22504-8}, recid = {1471796}, pages = {1 online resource (xxi, 334 pages).}, }