[Bilimsel Haber] PUBL.- Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World

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PUBL.- Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World

Posted by: Laura J Baich <lbaich at indiana.edu>



Indiana University Press is pleased to announce the recent publication of:

Food and Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World
Edited by Melissa L. Caldwell. Foreword by Marion Nestle. Afterword by
Elizabeth Cullen Dunn

Across the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during the socialist period, food
emerged as a symbol of both the successes and failures of socialist ideals
of progress, equality, and modernity. By the late 1980s, the arrival of
McDonald¹s behind the Iron Curtain epitomized the changes that swept across
the socialist world. Not quite two decades later, the effects of these
arrivals were evident in the spread of foreign food corporations and their
integration into local communities. This book explores the role played by
food<as commodity, symbol, and sustenance<in the transformation of life in
Russia and eastern Europe since the end of socialism. Changes in food
production systems, consumption patterns, food safety, and ideas about
health, well-being, nationalism, and history provide useful perspectives on
the meaning of the postsocialist transition for those who lived through it.

248 pp., 15 b&w illus.
cloth 978-0-253-35384-9 $65.00
paper 978-0-253-22139-1 $24.95

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http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/catalog/product_info.php?isbn=978-0-253-22139-1

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