The vanishing hectare : property and value in postsocialist Transylvania / Katherine Verdery.

  • Verdery, Katherine, 1948-
Date:
2003
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Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2003.

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xx, 426 pages : Grayscale Illustration ; 25 cm.

Notes

First published 2003 by Cornell University Press;
First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2003.
Printed in the United States of America.

Contents

Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Owners -- Realizing the Powers of Ownership.
Property in Socialism: Collectivization, Administrative Rights, and the Circulation of Goods -- Unmaking Socialist Agriculture: Contexts of Restitution in the 1990s -- How Hectares Vanished: Decollectivization Politics in Vlaicu -- New Kin, New Serfs, New Masters: Transformed Social Relations and the Meanings of Land -- The Death of a Peasantry: From Smallholders to Rentiers -- Of Credits and Credibility: The Rise and Fall of the Vlaicu Association -- The Dynamics of Decapitalization: The Fate of Vlaicu's State Farms -- From Debts to Dallas: Value Transformation and the Rise of Supertenants.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2019. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])

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  • 0810441977
  • 0810488698
  • 9780801488696