Food & Everyday Life in the Postsocialist World

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 McDonald's 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253221390
• ISBN13: 9780253221391
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher