Verdery What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-2199-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History

VerderyKatherine:

Katherine Verdery is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Among her books are Transylvanian Villagers and National Ideology under Socialism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verdery, Katherine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 3

1 What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? 19

2 The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania 39

3 From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe 61

4 Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist Romania 83

5 Civil Society or Nation? "Europe" in the Symbolism of Postsocialist Politics 104

6 The Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania 133

7 Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids, Romania, 1990-1994 168

8 A Transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Thoughts on the Postsocialist State 204

Afterword 229

Notes 235

Index 289

Über Autor(innen)

Katherine Verdery is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Among her books are Transylvanian Villagers and National Ideology under Socialism.