LEADER 04462nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910172235603321 005 20230612225824.0 010 $a1-4008-1372-7 010 $a1-282-75303-7 010 $a9786612753039 010 $a1-4008-2199-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400821990 035 $a(CKB)1000000000008503 035 $a(EBL)581664 035 $a(OCoLC)700688704 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000270796 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11231359 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000270796 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10281648 035 $a(PQKB)10962272 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581664 035 $a(OCoLC)614721037 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42980 035 $a(DE-B1597)453509 035 $a(OCoLC)979757059 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400821990 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581664 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10031901 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL275303 035 $a(PPN)187292256 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000008503 100 $a19950616h19961996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aWhat was socialism, and what comes next? /$fKatherine Verdery 210 1$aPrinceton, N.J. :$cPrinceton University Press,$d1996. 210 4$a©1996 215 $a1 online resource (309 pages) 225 1 $aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history 311 0 $a0-691-01133-8 311 0 $a0-691-01132-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [235]-287) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tPart I. Socialism --$tONE. What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? --$tTWO. The "Etatization" of Time in CeauÎescu's Romania --$tPart II. Identities: Gender, Nation, Civil Society --$tTHREE. From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe --$tFOUR. Nationalism and National Sentiment in Post socialist Romania --$tFIVE. Civil Society or Nation? "Europe" in the Symbolism of Post socialist Politics --$tPart III. Processes: Transforming Property, Markets, and States --$tSIX. The Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania --$tSEVEN. Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids, Romania, 1990-1994 --$tEIGHT. A Transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Thoughts on the Post socialist State --$tAfterword --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAmong the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she explores the nature of socialism in order to understand more fully its consequences. By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations. Under Verdery's examination, privatization and civil society appear not only as social processes, for example, but as symbols in political rhetoric. The classic pyramid scheme is not just a means of enrichment but a site for reconceptualizing the meaning of money and an unusual form of post-Marxist millenarianism. Land being redistributed as private property stretches and shrinks, as in the imaginings of the farmers struggling to tame it. Infused by this kind of ethnographic sensibility, the essays reject the assumption of a transition to capitalism in favor of investigating local processes in their own terms. 410 0$aPrinceton studies in culture/power/history. 606 $aSocialism$zRomania 606 $aCommunism$zRomania 606 $aPost-communism$zRomania 606 $aPost-communism 615 0$aSocialism 615 0$aCommunism 615 0$aPost-communism 615 0$aPost-communism. 676 $a338.9498 700 $aVerdery$b Katherine$0513110 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910172235603321 996 $aWhat was socialism, and what comes next$91909641 997 $aUNINA