This ethnographic study describes how Romanian industrial workers have fared since the end of socialism. The author finds fear and alienation due to their preca

The fall of the Soviet Union was a transformative event for the national political economies of Eastern Europe, leading not only to new regimes of ownership and

Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing of

This prize-winning study of post-WWII Romania examines the fraught relationship between national heritage and Socialist statecraft. In Socialist Heritage, ethno

This volume presents the anthropological responses to these problems. The authors demonstrate that even when local conditions are specific, the view "from below