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What was socialism, and what comes next?

Title
What was socialism, and what comes next? / Katherine Verdery.
Author
Verdery, Katherine.
Publication
Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1996.

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Description
298 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
  • 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 book, which deals 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: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations.
  • Infused by an ethnographic sensibility, the book rejects the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes on their own terms.
Series Statement
Princeton studies in culture/power/history
Uniform Title
Princeton studies in culture/power/history.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? -- 2. The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania -- 3. From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe -- 4. Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist Romania -- 5. Civil Society or Nation? "Europe" in the Symbolism of Postsocialist Politics -- 6. The Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania -- 7. Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids, Romania, 1990-1994 -- 8. A Transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Thoughts on the Postsocialist State.
ISBN
  • 0691011338 (alk. paper)
  • 069101132X (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
95032123
OCLC
  • 32779778
  • ocm32779778
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries