Title:A Good Buy – If You Can Get One. Purchasing cars under socialist conditions
Author(s):GATEJEL, LuminitaDate:2010Type of Publication:Working PaperSeries/Report no.:EUI MWPAbstract:This paper gives a panoramic mapping of the infamous socialist ‘economy of shortages’ (Kornai) as it was lived and experienced by ordinary socialist citizens. It starts out by framing the general conditions under which ...
Title:The Grace of Misery: Joseph Roth and the politics of exile, 1919–1939
Author(s):LAZAROMS, Ilse JosephaDate:2012Type of Publication:BookAbstract:The book confronts the life and intellectual heritage of the Galician-Jewish exiled journalist and writer Joseph Roth (1894–1939). Through the quandaries that occupied his mature writings—nostalgia, suffering, European ...
Title:“Gypsies”, “travellers” and “peasants”: A study on ethnic boundary drawing in Finland and Sweden, c.1860-1925
Author(s):TERVONEN, MiikaDate:2010Type of Publication:ThesisSeries/Report no.:EUI PhD thesesAbstract:The study concerns two minority groups, the Finnish Roma and the Swedish Travellers, and their changing relationship with the ‘peasants’ - ie. the mainstream sedentary population - in a period of economic modernization and ...