Subtitle:

Listy do władzy 1945-1989 : studia przypadków

Publisher:

Oficyna Wydawnicza ASPRA ; Instytut Historii im. Tadeusza Manteuffla Polskiej Akademii Nauk

Place of publishing:

Warszawa

Description:

p. 207-237 ; Bibliography under articles. Index ; See also "Listy do władz centralnych w Polsce 1945–1989 (przewodnik)" = Letters to the Central Authorities in Poland, 1945–1989 (Guidebook): ; click here to follow the link

Type of object:

Book/Chapter

Abstract:

The author investigates a certain group of documents from the Socialist era: public interest reports and letters of complaints submitted to a district level unit of the People’s Control Committee (NEB) in North-East Hungary between 1968–1989. NEB was established at the end of 1957 with the primary objective to protect people’s wealth and to disclose misuse and abuse (e.g. larceny, fraud, embezzlement, inappropriate management of common property and damages due to omission). The content analysis of the documents provides a down-to-top view into the conflict-stricken Socialist weekdays, and especially the major conflicts and power relations of local societies in the countryside. The change of values after ejection, the ambivalent relationship to common property and the differing social practices of the increasingly consumption-oriented life of the 1970s and 1980s can be revealed via the inspection of these documents. The most typical cases were as follows: reports criticising the operation of agricultural cooperatives, state and party organisations, the actual or supposed abuses of leaders and their clients, commercial units and services. With regard to these written reports the author examines, besides the formal-linguistic features of correspondence, the argumentative strategies applied by the correspondents in order to gain a positive evaluation, the impact these made on the NEB controllers, and the possible motivations of the correspondents having an attitude adjusted to the ideal of the new Socialist man.

Detailed Resource Type:

Chapter

Resource Identifier:

oai:rcin.org.pl:233650 ; 978-83-7545-933-3 ; 978-83-65880-51-2

Source:

IH PAN, call no. II.14637 ; IH PAN, call no. II.14636 Podr. ; click here to follow the link

Language:

eng

Language of abstract:

eng

Rights:

Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license

Terms of use:

Copyright-protected material. [CC BY-ND 4.0] May be used within the scope specified in Creative Commons Attribution BY-ND 4.0 license, full text available at: ; -

Digitizing institution:

Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Original in:

Library of the Institute of History PAS

Projects co-financed by:

National Science Center

Access:

Open