Please view the posters presented at the 19th Annual City Tech Faculty and Student Research Poster Session below. You can click on each poster to enlarge it and view the PDF version under the poster abstract.
We thank all presenters for sharing their innovative and informative research with the City Tech community and beyond!
32-Kádár Era: Dysfunctional Complacency and Nostalgia
This poster presents the fourth chapter in my new book, Chorus of Experiences Capturing Moments in Time: From the Siege of Budapest to Goulash Populism, that uses oral histories of senior Hungarian women to explore the past and the present. This chapter looks at the Kádár era through the eyes of Irén, who outlines some of the serious problems of the period but also shows some nostalgia for the economic stability and sense of community. Though not necessarily a “fair” society, people learned how to work the system, find ways to get short supplied goods, or bribe their way to gain advantage. Part of the prolonged stability of the era may be the perception of economic stability. Festering discontent lays the groundwork for the eventual fall of Communism and the incentive to change. Ironically, from the perspective of today’s society, some look back to this period with fondness, what has been referred to as communist nostalgia. View or download a PDF version of this poster.
