The Political Lives of Dead Bodies (Häftad)
avKatherine Verdery
ISBN: 9780231112314 - UTGIVEN: 200008Since 1989, scores of bodies across Eastern Europe have been exhumed and brought to rest in new gravesites. Katherine Verdery investigates why certain corpses -- the bodies of revolutionary leaders, heroes, artists, and other luminaries, as well as more humble folk -- have taken on a political life [...]
National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania (Övrig)
avKatherine Verdery
ISBN: 9780520203587 - UTGIVEN: 1995-09-07The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a re[...]
Peasants Under Siege (Pocket)
avGail Kligman, Katherine Verdery
ISBN: 9780691149738 - UTGIVEN: 2011-07-25""Peasants under Siege" is the most nuanced and multifaceted analysis of this topic to date. It will become an instant classic in East European studies. Kligman and Verdery never take the easy way out or smooth over complexity. Their empirical account of Romanian collectivization offers unparalleled[...]
Secrets and Truths (Pocket)
avKatherine Verdery
ISBN: 9786155225994 - UTGIVEN: 2014-02Nothing in Soviet-style communism was as shrouded in mystery as its secret police. Its paid employees were known to few and their actual numbers remain uncertain. Its informers and collaborators operated clandestinely under pseudonyms and met their officers in secret locations. Its files were inacce[...]
