Eszter Bartha
Biographic Data
| ID | 4164585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eszter Bartha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eszter |
| FAMILY NAME | Bartha |
| SIGNATURE | BARTHA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Eötvös Loránd University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3330-2825 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
An aborted democracy
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism, by Tibor Valuch, London and New York, Routledge, 2025, £136, 336 pp. (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-032-35163-6From th
Making or faking capitalism? Socialist dreams and postsocialist experiences in East-Central Europe
Our paper proposes to rethink the concepts of modernization and modernity in the context of state socialist and postsocialist transformations in Eastern and Central Europe. By focusing on historical transformations, we seek to challenge normative and static constructions of the state socialist legacy and show that such perceptions are rooted in the Cold War ideological division. One way to contest this division is to reconceptualize socialist mod…
Workers against technocrats
The article seeks to investigate the working-class background of the failure of the economic reform of the 1960s in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The reform attempted to bring more incentives and market-like elements into labour organisation and management practices. However, there was an essential discrepancy between loyal party work and strong ideological commitment, and the ‘capitalist’ managerial practices. Despite the fact that the S…
Alienating Labour
The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy-successful at the outset-in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide …
Einführung
The anatomy of a war
The Emasculation of Trade Unions and Workers’ Drift to Neonationalism in Hungary
Theoretically, the essay is built on Karl Polanyi’s interpretation of disembedding and Chris Hann’s application of this model to post-1989 Eastern Europe. The essay sets out to explain why trade unions failed to become a successful countermovement in the Polanyian sense of the word by analysing four sources of power available to unions. We go on to analyse the social and political consequences of this failure, demonstrating through the analysis o…
Transforming Labour
The article seeks to place the workers’ road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary in a historical context. It offers an overview of the most important elements of the party’s policy towards labour in the two countries under the Honecker and the Kádár regime respectively. It examines the highly paternalistic role of the factory as a life-long employer and provider of workers’ needs for the large industrial working class which t…
Fallen Heroes in Global Capitalism
Post-socialist transformation has been frequently depicted as a success story, which ended with the adoption of Western institutions such as the market economy and parliamentary democracy and the i
The Workers' State
Combattenti solitari. Lavoratori tedeschi e ungheresi in epoca postcomunista
Introduces the results of a life-history interview project conducted with workers and former workers of two large ex-socialist model factories, Carl Zeiss in Jena (East Germany) and Rábe in Gyo ́ ́r (Hungary) between 2002 and 2004. The essay analyzes the post-socialist experience of the East German and Hungarian workers in three main dimensions: the experience of post-Fordist development in the factory; the subjective evaluation of the standard o…
Welfare Dictatorship, the Working Class and the Change of Regimes in East Germany and Hungary
Would you call the capitalists back?’ Workers and the beginning of market socialism in Hungary
Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Welfare Dictatorship, the Working Class and the Change of Regimes in East Germany and Hungary
Would you call the capitalists back?’ Workers and the beginning of market socialism in Hungary
Making or faking capitalism? Socialist dreams and postsocialist experiences in East-Central Europe
Our paper proposes to rethink the concepts of modernization and modernity in the context of state socialist and postsocialist transformations in Eastern and Central Europe. By focusing on historical transformations, we seek to challenge normative and static constructions of the state socialist legacy and show that such perceptions are rooted in the Cold War ideological division. One way to contest this division is to reconceptualize socialist mod…
The Emasculation of Trade Unions and Workers’ Drift to Neonationalism in Hungary
Theoretically, the essay is built on Karl Polanyi’s interpretation of disembedding and Chris Hann’s application of this model to post-1989 Eastern Europe. The essay sets out to explain why trade unions failed to become a successful countermovement in the Polanyian sense of the word by analysing four sources of power available to unions. We go on to analyse the social and political consequences of this failure, demonstrating through the analysis o…
The Workers' State
Look Back in Anger
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Look Back in Anger
Would you call the capitalists back?’ Workers and the beginning of market socialism in Hungary
Welfare Dictatorship, the Working Class and the Change of Regimes in East Germany and Hungary
Combattenti solitari. Lavoratori tedeschi e ungheresi in epoca postcomunista
Introduces the results of a life-history interview project conducted with workers and former workers of two large ex-socialist model factories, Carl Zeiss in Jena (East Germany) and Rábe in Gyo ́ ́r (Hungary) between 2002 and 2004. The essay analyzes the post-socialist experience of the East German and Hungarian workers in three main dimensions: the experience of post-Fordist development in the factory; the subjective evaluation of the standard o…
Fallen Heroes in Global Capitalism
Post-socialist transformation has been frequently depicted as a success story, which ended with the adoption of Western institutions such as the market economy and parliamentary democracy and the i
The Workers' State
Transforming Labour
The article seeks to place the workers’ road from socialism to capitalism in East Germany and Hungary in a historical context. It offers an overview of the most important elements of the party’s policy towards labour in the two countries under the Honecker and the Kádár regime respectively. It examines the highly paternalistic role of the factory as a life-long employer and provider of workers’ needs for the large industrial working class which t…
The Emasculation of Trade Unions and Workers’ Drift to Neonationalism in Hungary
Theoretically, the essay is built on Karl Polanyi’s interpretation of disembedding and Chris Hann’s application of this model to post-1989 Eastern Europe. The essay sets out to explain why trade unions failed to become a successful countermovement in the Polanyian sense of the word by analysing four sources of power available to unions. We go on to analyse the social and political consequences of this failure, demonstrating through the analysis o…
Alienating Labour
The Communist Party dictatorships in Hungary and East Germany sought to win over the "masses" with promises of providing for ever-increasing levels of consumption. This policy-successful at the outset-in the long-term proved to be detrimental for the regimes because it shifted working class political consciousness to the right while it effectively excluded leftist alternatives from the public sphere. This book argues that this policy can provide …
Einführung
The anatomy of a war
Workers against technocrats
The article seeks to investigate the working-class background of the failure of the economic reform of the 1960s in the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The reform attempted to bring more incentives and market-like elements into labour organisation and management practices. However, there was an essential discrepancy between loyal party work and strong ideological commitment, and the ‘capitalist’ managerial practices. Despite the fact that the S…
Making or faking capitalism? Socialist dreams and postsocialist experiences in East-Central Europe
Our paper proposes to rethink the concepts of modernization and modernity in the context of state socialist and postsocialist transformations in Eastern and Central Europe. By focusing on historical transformations, we seek to challenge normative and static constructions of the state socialist legacy and show that such perceptions are rooted in the Cold War ideological division. One way to contest this division is to reconceptualize socialist mod…
An aborted democracy
Contemporary Hungarian Society: Social Changes in Hungary from Late State Socialism, by Tibor Valuch, London and New York, Routledge, 2025, £136, 336 pp. (Hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-032-35163-6From th
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