What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?
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Activism
Advanced capitalism
Anti-communism
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Capitalism
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Civil society
Collectivization in the Soviet Union
Commodity fetishism
Communism
Communist party
Communist propaganda
Competition (economics)
Conspiracy theory
Criticism of capitalism
Decentralization
Demokratizatsiya (Soviet Union)
Eastern Europe
Economic liberalism
Economic migrant
Economic planning
Economics
Economy
Employment
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Feudalism
Hectare
Hungarians
Ideology
Imperialism
Industrialisation
Labour power
Leninism
Market (economics)
Market economy
Marketization
Marxism
Marxism-Leninism
Nationalism
Nationalization
Nations and Nationalism (book)
Neo-Marxism
New class
Peasant
Political capital
Political economy
Political party
Politician
Politics
Postmodernism
Postmodernity
Privatization
Pyramid scheme
Rationalization (sociology)
Romanian Communist Party
Romanians
Securitate
Shortage
Social democracy
Social reproduction
Socialism with Chinese characteristics
Socialist economics
Socialist market economy
Socialist society (Labour Party)
Socialist state
Sociocultural evolution
Sovereignty
Soviet Empire
Soviet Union
Stalinism
Subsidy
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Totalitarianism
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- ISBN 9780691011325
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 07 Mar 1996
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
Katherine Verdery is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Among her books are Transylvanian Villagers and National Ideology under Socialism.
