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National ideology under socialism : identity and cultural politics in Ceauşescu's Romania
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ISBN: 0520072162 0520203585 Year: 1991 Volume: 7 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule.

What was socialism, and what comes next?
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ISBN: 0691011338 069101132X 1400813727 9786612753039 1282753037 1400821991 9781400813728 9781400821990 9780691011332 9780691011325 1400808235 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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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: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations. Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms.

National ideology under socialism
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ISBN: 0520917286 0585128804 9780520917286 9780585128801 0520072162 0520203585 Year: 1995 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press

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The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule.

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Intellectuals --- Regions & Countries - Europe --- History & Archaeology --- Balkan Peninsula --- Intelligentsia --- Persons --- Social classes --- Specialists --- Ceaușescu, Nicolae. --- Tsʹeʼoshesḳo, Niḳoleye --- Tseaouseskou, Nikolae --- Tshāwshīskū, Nīqūlāy --- Chʻi-ao-sai-ssu-kʻu --- Chaushesku, Nikolae --- Chaushesuku, Nikorae --- Ceaușescu, Niculae --- צ׳אושסקו, ניקולאי --- Romania --- Government of Romania --- Lo-ma-ni-ya --- Luomaniya --- R.N.R. --- R.P.R. --- R.P. Romînă --- R.S.R. --- Republica Populară Romînă --- Republica Socialistă România --- Rhowmenia --- RNR --- Román Szocialista Köztársaság --- Romāniyā --- Romanyah --- Roumania --- Roumanie --- RP Romînă --- RPR --- RSR --- Rumania --- Rumänien --- Rumenyah --- Rumenye --- Rumunia --- Rumŭnii︠a︡ --- Rumunsko --- Rumynii︠a︡ --- Rumynskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Румыния --- ルーマニア --- 羅馬尼亞 --- 루마니아 --- Moldavia --- Wallachia --- Cultural policy. --- Politics and government --- Intellectual life --- 20th century eastern european history. --- 20th century eastern european politics. --- anthropology. --- communism. --- communist party rule. --- cultural production. --- cultural studies. --- dogmatism. --- eastern european history. --- eastern european society. --- elitism. --- ethnic tensions. --- marxism. --- national ideology. --- nationalism. --- political history. --- pre communist nationalism. --- presocialist romania. --- real socialism. --- reassertion. --- romania. --- romanian history. --- socialism. --- society and culture in east central europe series. --- state formation. --- suppression. --- universality. --- Royaume de Roumanie

The Vanishing Hectare
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ISBN: 1501717251 9781501717253 0801441978 9780801441974 0801488699 9780801488696 0810441978 0810488699 9780810441972 0810441977 9780810488694 0810488698 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism opened up the possibility for individuals to acquire land. Based on Katherine Verdery's extensive fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, The Vanishing Hectare explores the importance of land and land ownership to the people of one Transylvanian community, Aurel Vlaicu. Verdery traces how collectivized land was transformed into private property, how land was valued, what the new owners were able to do with it, and what it signified to each of the different groups vying for land rights. Verdery tells this story about transforming socialist property forms in a global context, showing the fruitfulness of conceptualizing property as a political symbol, as a complex of social relations among people and things, and as a process of assigning value. This book is a window on rural life after socialism but it also provides a framework for assessing the neo-liberal economic policies that have prevailed elsewhere, such as in Latin America. Verdery shows how the trajectory of property after socialism was deeply conditioned by the forms property took in socialism itself; this is in contrast to the image of a "tabula rasa" that governed much thinking about post-socialist property reform.


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Secrets and Truths
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ISBN: 9789633860519 9633860512 9786155225994 6155225990 9633860490 9789633860496 Year: 2022 Publisher: Budapest New York

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Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inaccessible, even to most party members. The people the secret police recruited or interrogated were threatened so effectively that some never told even their spouses, and many have held their tongues to this day, long after the regimes fell.With the end of communism, many of the newly established governments--among them Romania's--opened their secret police archives. From those files, as well as her personal memories, the author has carried out historical ethnography of the Romanian Securitate. Secrets and Truths is not only of historical interest but has implications for understanding the rapidly developing "security state" of the neoliberal present.


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My life as a spy : investigations in a secret police file
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ISBN: 0822370662 9780822370666 9780822370819 0822370816 0822371901 Year: 2018 Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press,

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What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
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ISBN: 9781400821990 9780691011325 Year: 1996 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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The Vanishing Hectare : Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania
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ISBN: 9781501717253 Year: 2018 Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. Cornell University Press

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Secrets and Truths : Ethnography in the Archive of Romania's Secret Police
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ISBN: 9789633860519 Year: 2022 Publisher: Budapest ;; New York Central European University Press

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