In 1992, Francis Fukuyama offered the optimistic forecast that the “end of history” was impending. His thesis was that the collapse of Soviet communism and the pervasive and demonstrated failures of centrally-planned, command economies had led to universal acceptance of market-based, capitalist democracies. So, he contended, the Manichean struggle between them, which dominated the history of th...

Wei-chin Lee is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. His publications have appeared in a number of scholarly journals, including Asian Survey, Asian Perspective, Issues and Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, Journal of Asian and African Studies, Ocean Development and International Law, SAIS Review, Studies in Comparative Communism, and World Affairs. His most...

Article Tibor Valuch: Everyday Life Under Communism and After: Lifestyle Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 was published on December 1, 2022 the journal Comparative Southeast European Studies (volume 70, issue 4).