What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History) download epub

Marx, Lenin, Djilas, Marcuse, and some others have explained why this was so. In What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?, anthropologist Katherine Verdery explains how and why the Soviet bloc socialist experiment failed in general terms and in sharp narrative detail.

Katherine Verdery is Professor of Anthropology at the Johns Hopkins University. Among her books are Transylvanian Villagers and National Ideology under Socialism. Verdery starts always with real people's thoughts and experiences, putting her inquiries on a solid footing that both statistics-heavy economic reports and arid efforts at political theorizing conspicuously lack. This solidity is a boon to those who want to understand how formerly existing socialism came to be what it was-and a warning to those who traffic in simple models of how it is being surpassed.

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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

Sep 26, 2011 Margherita rated it it was amazing. 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 f This collection of essays speaks to some of the most critical questions of the twentieth century for sure. Really easy to read and understand the main issues after Soviet period. The first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe!

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Katherine Verdery is an American anthropologist and author, currently the Julien J. Studley . Her book describes the files' contents and her reactions to seeing them. Studley Faculty Scholar and Distinguished Professor at City University of New York, and also a published author. She was also previously the Eric R. Wolf Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center of Russian and European Studies at University of Michigan, and also in 2007, the George Armitage. Miller Endowment Visiting Professor at University of Minnesota. What was Socialism, and What Comes Next?, Princeton University Press (1996).

As Katherine Verdery indicates in her introduction, our current century .

As Katherine Verdery indicates in her introduction, our current century takes much of its character from Bolshevism.

Synnopsis : 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.

9. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 PART I: SOCIALISM 17 ONE What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall?

P. C. (princeton studies in y) includes bibliographical references and index. 9. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 PART I: SOCIALISM 17 ONE What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? 19 TWO The Etatization of Time in CeauŒescu’s Romania 39 PART II: IDENTITIES: GENDER, NATION, CIVIL SOCIETY 59 THREE From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe 61 FOUR Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist Romania FIVE Civil Society or Nation?

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Katherine Verdery Fate had it that when I found myself at the head of the state it was already clear that all was not well in the country. Everything had to be changed radically. Mediating the intersection of these two axes were socialism’s appeal for many in the Third World and the challenges it posed to the First. As an organization of thought, the Cold War affected both public perceptions and intellectual life. When they launched a contemptridden, culture-of-poverty diatribe against the lazy Gypsies who hung around the farm, I tried to counter with the social-structural critique of that idea.