Uncertain Transition Ethnographies of Change in the Postsocialist World

by Burawoy, Michael; Verdery, Katherine; Ashwin, Sarah; Burawoy, Michael; Creed, Gerald; Dunn, Elizabeth; Humphrey, Caroline; Lass, Andrew; Woodruff, David; Zbierski-Salameh, Slawomira

• ISBN13: 9780847690428
• ISBN10: 0847690423
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-01-28
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. 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.

Table of Contents

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 Transylvania's Decollectivization	53	(30)
Katherine Verdery
3 Barter of the Bankrupt: The Politics of Demonetization in Russia's 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