Katherine Verdery N E T

socialism

3 entries are about this subject

National Ideology under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu’s Romania (1991)

This book is about the politicking that took place around the Romanian national idea during the socialist period. Based on the theoretical model of socialism that Verdery also published in the articles “Theorizing Socialism” and “What Was Socialism and Why Did It Fall,” this book analyzes disputes in the field of cultural production in which ideas [...]

Anthropology of Socialist Societies

Socialist (also known as communist) societies constitute a class of twentieth-century societies sharing two distinctive features: the political dominance of a revolutionary — usually a Communist — Party, and widespread nationalization of means of production, with consequent preponderance of state and collective property. This definition excludes societies governed by socialist or social-democratic parties in multi-party systems, such as the Scandinavian welfare states. It includes, among others, the Soviet Union, the East European countries, the People’s Republic of China, Mongolia, North Korea, Vietnam, South Yemen, Cuba, Nicaragua, Ethiopia, and Mozambique.

What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (1996)

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. In this collection of essays dealing with the aftermath of Soviet-style socialism and the different forms that may replace it, she [...]