communities" in the Soviet Union and the United States / Kate Brown -- "Knife in the water" : competitive consumption in …, 1960s-1980s / Rossitza Guentcheva -- Kitchen talk : introduction -- Eating up Yugoslavia : cookbooks and consumption in … / Katherine Pence -- From black caviar to blackouts : gender, consumption, and lifestyle in Ceausescu's Romania / Jill Massino …

"The history of consumption has experienced remarkable growth since the 1980s, driven by the interest of scholars in a … specialized approaches into one common discourse. It takes stock of what consumption history has accomplished in recent decades … scholars in Europe and the United States, who discuss consumption patterns and their implications for the development of modern …