Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945 â 1989 (Giustino, Plum, and Vari Eds.)
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Abstract
Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945Europe, -1989 is a rare book.It is rare because amidst a plethora of social sciences and historical literature it does not join a chorus of socialism's dismissal, and amidst a range of anthropological literature it does not simply investigate socialism's effects on people's everyday economic, cultural, and social lives.Rather, it seeks to highlight those effects that are usually neglected and negated: the possibility of pleasure and fun of living in the socialist world.It is, in fact, Socialist Escapes' ludic emphases, which provide the volume with a light tone, and that-paradoxically-convey a strong sense of normality of living "under socialism."Methodologically, this is achieved by the contributors' deep immersion in socialist worlds, especially East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.Building on extensive fieldwork, interviews, and observations, as well as fostering a comparative approach, the contributors to this volume bring discussions of agency and fun into conversation, thus expanding our understandings of both Eastern Europe and understandings of socialist politics that tend to focus on political power and depression.Socialist Escapes traces the idea of fun through various practices in Eastern Europe, including music festivals, nature tourism, increasingly bohemian life-styles that include nudist practices and beach parties, hiking, and the spectacle sports of motorcycle racing and soccer.Of particular importance is the fact that the forms of entertainment and leisure investigated in this volume are not necessarily spectacular in the sense of being always visually or physically exciting, but that they provide a measure of freedom and autonomy to those who engage in or with them.For example, across many parts of the East European (and larger) socialist world, hiking, and to some extent mountain climbing, provided a pleasurable exit strategy from the demands of socialist economic and political party life.In fact, as numerous contributors including Dabrowski, Plum, Costache, Neuburger, and Keck-Szajbel convincingly show, the cultural and emotional practices of nature loving became so widespread and popular that individuals, families, and outdoor-oriented organizations and clubs left the more urban world on a regular basis to enjoy what we usually think of as wild and free nature."In correlation, what seems important here is the fact that some spaces provided a greater degree of autonomy and freedom than others.So, apart from socialism's infamous "kitchen culture" that marked a private space in which people could often talk with a certain degree of frankness and trust, more public spaces such as motorcycling tracks, soccer stadiums, hotels, music festivals, and chateaux turned into sites where a variety of people and groups could and did experience pleasure and fun.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".