LEADER 05195nam 22006855 450 001 9910523729203321 005 20240307130337.0 010 $a9783030891848$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030891831 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-89184-8 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6876154 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6876154 035 $a(CKB)21022428900041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-89184-8 035 $a(EXLCZ)9921022428900041 100 $a20220129d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBusiness Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1 $eCreating the Theft Economy, 1945-1957 /$fby Philip Scranton 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (325 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Debates in Business History,$x2662-4370 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Scranton, Philip Business Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1 Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030891831 327 $aPreface -- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Hungary: Geography, History and Society to 1945 -- Chapter 2- The Theft Economy: Occupation and Forced Industrialization -- Chapter 3 - Agriculture from Stalinism to the Revolt -- Chapter 4 - An Unfinished Project: Constructing Socialist Construction -- Chapter 5 - Socialist Commerce: Provisioning, Coping, Maneuvering and Trading -- Chapter 6 - Hungary's Socialist Industrialization: A Snare and a Delusion -- Chapter 7 - The Revolt: Spontaneity, Repression and Reaction -- Chapter 8 - Afterword. 330 $aThis 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 longbeen 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, howpolitical 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." Philip Scranton is University Board of Governors Professor Emeritus, History of Industry and Technology, at Rutgers University, USA. His publications include fourteen books and seventy scholarly articles, multiple contributions to exhibit catalogs, and numerous reviews of books and conferences. 410 0$aPalgrave Debates in Business History,$x2662-4370 606 $aManagement 606 $aEntrepreneurship 606 $aNew business enterprises 606 $aStrategic planning 606 $aLeadership 606 $aBusiness ethics 606 $aManagement 606 $aEntrepreneurship 606 $aBusiness Strategy and Leadership 606 $aBusiness Ethics 615 0$aManagement. 615 0$aEntrepreneurship. 615 0$aNew business enterprises. 615 0$aStrategic planning. 615 0$aLeadership. 615 0$aBusiness ethics. 615 14$aManagement. 615 24$aEntrepreneurship. 615 24$aBusiness Strategy and Leadership. 615 24$aBusiness Ethics. 676 $a338.52 676 $a330.9439052 700 $aScranton$b Philip$0931728 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910523729203321 996 $aBusiness Practice in Socialist Hungary, Volume 1$94329758 997 $aUNINA