What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?

Name: What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
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ISBN: 9780691011325

ISBN-10: 069101132X

ISBN-13: 9780691011325

Edition: 1996

Authors: Katherine Verdery

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Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism:…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/7/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.94" long x 0.87" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Introduction



What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?



The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania



From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe



Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist Romania



Civil Society or Nation? "Europe" in the Symbolism of Postsocialist Politics



The Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania



Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids, Romania, 1990-1994



A Transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Thoughts on the Postsocialist State


Afterword


Notes


Index