The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. Looking at the everyday processes by which individuals and groups forge new lives, the authors challenge the idea that we can understand this transformation by the predictable modelswhether capitalism, post-socialism, modernity, or postmodernity. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, and political science to reveal the complex relationships that still exist between the former socialist world and the world today. Through evocative ethnographic research and writing, they bring to light the unintended consequences of change and show how the "slates" of the past enter the present not as legaciesbut as novel adaptations. Often what appear as "restorations" of patterns familiar from socialism are something quite different: direct responses to the new market initiatives. By showing the unexpected ways in which these new patterns are emerging, this book charts a new and important course for the study of post-socialist transition.
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An excellent introduction to the current social and political changes in Eastern Europe. Although it presents an academic discussion, I strongly suggest that business people and those who plan to work in Eastern Europe should glance at it, for it offers an excellent insight into the mentality of societies with which they might work. * Slavic and East European Journal * The studies in the Burawoy and Verdery volume put flesh on this argument, providing an inconvertible demonstration of the importance of ethnographic research for the development of social theory as well as invaluable material for thhose seeking to find some coherence in the "uncertain transition." * American Journal of Sociology *
Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1(18) Michael Burawoy Katherine Verdery 1 Traders, Disorder, and Citizenship Regimes in Provincial Russia 19(34) Caroline Humphrey 2 Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvanias Decollectivization 53(30) Katherine Verdery 3 Barter of the Bankrupt: The Politics of Demonetization in Russias Federal State 83(42) David Woodruff 4 Slick Salesmen and Simple People: Negotiated Capitalism in a Privatized Polish Firm 125(26) Elizabeth Dunn 5 But We Are Still Mothers: Gender, the State, and the Construction of Need in Postsocialist Hungary 151(38) Lynne Haney 6 Polish Peasants in the Valley of Transition: Responses to Postsocialist Reforms 189(34) Slawomira Zbierski-Salameh 7 Deconstructing Socialism in Bulgaria 223(22) Gerald W. Creed 8 Redefining the Collective: Russian Mineworkers in Transition 245(28) Sarah Ashwin 9 Portable Worlds: On the Limits of Replication in the Czech and Slovak Republics 273(28) Andrew Lass 10 Afterword 301(12) Michael Burawoy Index 313(8) About the Contributors 321
Michael Burawoy is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Katherine Verdery is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.
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