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What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
Katherine Verdery
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
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.
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Competition (economics), Socialist society (Labour Party), Ideology, Peasant, Neo-Marxism, Socialism with Chinese characteristics, Decentralization, Eastern Europe, Conspiracy theory, Marxism–Leninism, Market (economics), Soviet Union, Economy, Hectare, Marketization, Socialist market economy, Communist party, Subsidy, Postmodernism, New class, Socialist economics, Capitalism, Hungarians, Labour power, Stalinism, Market economy, Nationalization, Employment, Romanian Communist Party, Shortage, Pyramid scheme, Rationalization (sociology), Politician, Imperialism, Nations and Nationalism (book), Sovereignty, Civil society, Feudalism, Nationalism, Political capital, Economic migrant, Marxism, Social reproduction, Sociocultural evolution, Social democracy, Advanced capitalism, Communism, Economic planning, Commodity fetishism, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Communist propaganda, Postmodernity, Activism, Anti-communism, Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union), Political economy, Collectivization in the Soviet Union, Industrialisation, Criticism of capitalism, Securitate, Economics, Privatization, Socialist state, Totalitarianism, Politics, Soviet Empire, Economic liberalism, Political party, Romanians, Leninism