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Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1 - Creating the Theft Economy, 1945-1957 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
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Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1 - Creating the Theft Economy, 1945-1957 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2022)
Series: Palgrave Debates in Business History
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This study aims to reconstruct the activities of enterprises and
individuals over two decades in one developing country (Hungary),
within and across four politico-economic domains (agriculture,
infrastructure/construction, commerce, and manufacturing), from the
initial Stalinist obsession with heavy industry (Volume 1: Creating
the Theft Economy, 1945-1957) through later reforms paying greater
attention to profitable farming and the provision of abundant
consumer goods (Volume 2: From Chaos to Contradiction, 1957-1972,
forthcoming 2023). It provides hundreds of grounded, granular
stories for reflection, as reported by actors and direct observers,
ranging from innovation and improvisation to obstruction, failure,
and fraud. Further, it offers an otherwise-unobtainable close
encounter with another world, familiar in some respects while
amazingly peculiar in others. The social history of enterprise and
work in postwar Central European nations "building socialism" has
long been underdeveloped. Through extensive macro-level research on
planning and policy in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, and other
Bloc countries, a grand narrative has been framed: reconstruction
and breakneck industrialization under Soviet tutelage; then
eventual mismanagement, stagnation and crisis, leading to collapse.
This book seeks to explore what socialism actually looked like to
those sustaining (or enduring} it as they faced forward into an
unknowable future, to assess how and where it did (or didn't) work,
and to recount how ordinary people responded to its opportunities
and constraints. This study will appeal to readers interested in
understanding how businesses worked day-to-day in a planned
economy, how enterprise practices and technological strategies
shifted during the first postwar generation, how novice managers
and technicians emerged during rapid industrialization, how
peasants learned to farm cooperatively, how organizations
improvised and adapted, how political purity and practical
expertise contended for control, and how the controversies and
convulsions of the postwar decades shaped a deeply flawed project
to "build socialism."
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