1st Edition

East European Communities The Struggle For Balance In Turbulent Times

Edited By David A. Kideckel Copyright 1995
258 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on communities in the east European transition and the diverse issues which people face in them on a daily basis. It is organized around three themes: economic change and privatization; the transformation of social and political organization; and changing community belief system.

1. Communities in the East European Transition Part One: Challenges of Privatization and the Market 2. Labyrinths of Freedom: An Agricultural Community in Post-Socialist Hungary 3. An Old Song in a New Voice: Decollectivization in Bulgaria 4. Two Incidents on the Plains in Southern Transylvania: Pitfalls of Privatization in a Romanian Community 5. Agricultural Transformation and Social Change in an East German County 6. A Polish Village in the Process of Transformation Towards a Market Economy Part Two: Society Up For Grabs 7. Ferenc Erdei and Antal Vermes: The Struggle for Balance in Rural Hungary 8. Changing Conflicts and Their Resolution in Polish Communities Today 9. Uneasy Accommodation: Ethnicity and Politics in Rural Bulgaria 10. All Is Possible, Nothing Is Certain: The Horizons of Transition in a Romanian Village Part Three: Debates over Meaning and Identities 11. From Decollectivization to Poverty and Beyond: Women in Rural East Germany Before and After Unification 12. Roma of Shuto Orizari, Macedonia: Class, Politics, and Community 13. Social Change as Reflected in the Lives of Bulgarian Villagers 14. A Rural Business Class in Transition: Observations from a Polish Region

Biography

David A. Kideckel is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Central Connecticut State University. He recently published The Solitude of Collectivism: Romanian Villagers to the Revolution and Beyond (Cornell) and co-edited the Anthropology of East Europe Review special issue on War Among the Yugoslavs: Anthropological Perspectives. Currently he is involved in a project analyzing the socio-political implications of privatization aid to transitional east Europe.