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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Cold War wasn't just fought with missiles and spies.It was fought in shopping malls, factories, and black markets.Behind the Iron Curtain, communist regimes promised a world without capitalism-yet quietly depended on it to survive. The Intershop Heresy uncovers the astonishing true stories of how socialist states ran secret capitalist experiments, legalized black markets, and bent ideology beyond recognition when reality refused to cooperate.This book is not about espionage or nuclear brinkmanship. It's about the strange hybrid economies that emerged when survival mattered more than doctrine.Who this book is for: Readers fascinated by Cold War history beyond superpower politicsFans of political economy and economic historyAnyone curious about socialism, capitalism, and their contradictionsReaders who enjoy deeply researched narrative nonfictionThose interested in how ordinary people navigate broken systemsWhat you'll learn and gain: How communist states quietly adopted capitalist practicesWhy ideology collapsed under everyday economic pressureHow black markets evolved into official government policyWhat these hybrid systems reveal about power and human behaviorWhy economic reality often defeats political theoryInside this book, you'll discover: Yugoslavia's market socialism, where workers voted on production while leaders used Western creditEast Germany's Intershops, where only foreign currency could buy everyday goodsHungary's "Goulash Communism," blending private enterprise with Party rulePoland's black market so vast it was eventually legalizedSoviet shadow economies built on barter, favors, and informal networksChina's early capitalist zones operating beneath communist symbolismThese twenty meticulously researched stories reveal a Cold War economic battlefield stranger than fiction-where ideology clashed with human ingenuity, and survival rewrote the rules.If you think you understand the Cold War, this book will change your mind.Discover the hidden economies that exposed the limits of ideology and reshaped history. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. The Cold War wasn't just fought with missiles and spies.It was fought in shopping malls, factories, and black markets.Behind the Iron Curtain, communist regimes promised a world without capitalism-yet quietly depended on it to survive. The Intershop Heresy uncovers the astonishing true stories of how socialist states ran secret capitalist experiments, legalized black markets, and bent ideology beyond recognition when reality refused to cooperate.This book is not about espionage or nuclear brinkmanship. It's about the strange hybrid economies that emerged when survival mattered more than doctrine.Who this book is for: Readers fascinated by Cold War history beyond superpower politicsFans of political economy and economic historyAnyone curious about socialism, capitalism, and their contradictionsReaders who enjoy deeply researched narrative nonfictionThose interested in how ordinary people navigate broken systemsWhat you'll learn and gain: How communist states quietly adopted capitalist practicesWhy ideology collapsed under everyday economic pressureHow black markets evolved into official government policyWhat these hybrid systems reveal about power and human behaviorWhy economic reality often defeats political theoryInside this book, you'll discover: Yugoslavia's market socialism, where workers voted on production while leaders used Western creditEast Germany's Intershops, where only foreign currency could buy everyday goodsHungary's "Goulash Communism," blending private enterprise with Party rulePoland's black market so vast it was eventually legalizedSoviet shadow economies built on barter, favors, and informal networksChina's early capitalist zones operating beneath communist symbolismThese twenty meticulously researched stories reveal a Cold War economic battlefield stranger than fiction-where ideology clashed with human ingenuity, and survival rewrote the rules.If you think you understand the Cold War, this book will change your mind.Discover the hidden economies that exposed the limits of ideology and reshaped history. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…