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      My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File

      Katherine Verdery

      Katherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her…

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      The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania

      Katherine Verdery

      In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism meant individuals could acquire land. Based on fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, the author explores…

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      What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?

      Katherine Verdery

      Presents a collection of essays that deal with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it. This book explores the nature of socialism in order…

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      My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File

      Katherine Verdery

      Katherine Verdery analyzes the 2,781 page surveillance file the Romanian secret police compiled on her during her research trips to Transylvania in the 1970s and 1980s. Reading it led her…

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      The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change

      Katherine Verdery

      Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Verdery investigates why certain corpses have taken on political life in the…

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      National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu’s Romania

      Katherine Verdery

      This text shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions in East-Central Europe come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism, but from the strengthening of national…

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      Transylvanian Villagers: Three Centuries of Political, Economic, and Ethnic Change

      Katherine Verdery

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      A Dixie Doll

      Katherine Verdery

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      Peasants Under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962

      Gail Kligman,Katherine Verdery

      Provides a comprehensive look at the social engineering process that ensued. This title examines how collectivization assaulted the foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship…

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      Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy

      Addressing hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property and what is happening to it in the contemporary world, in case studies ranging…

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      Property in Question: Value Transformation in the Global Economy

      Addressing hotly contested issues and many more, Property in Question interrogates the very concept of property and what is happening to it in the contemporary world, in case studies ranging…

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      A Dixie Doll

      Katherine Verdery

      ""A Dixie Doll"" is a novel by Katherine Verdery that tells the story of a young woman named Dixie who grows up in the South during the early 20th century…

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      Secrets and Truths: Ethnography in the Archive of Romania’s Secret Police

      Katherine Verdery (Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY))

      Secrets and Truth offers a rare insider’s look into Secret Police’s actions in Romania.

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      The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania

      Katherine Verdery (Eric R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan, USA)

      In most countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, the fall of communism meant individuals could acquire land. Based on fieldwork between 1990 and 2001, the author explores…

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      Uncertain Transition: Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

      The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe

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      Journal of Romanian Studies - Volume 1,1 (2019)

      Margaret Beissinger,Lavinia Stan,Radu Cinpoes

      This is the first issue of the biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by the Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press. The interdisciplinary journal examines critical issues…

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