Beschreibung
How do rural communities remember a socialist past marked by coercion, adaptation, and creativity? This book explores the memory of Romanian rural socialism through a longue durée perspective, revealing complementary and sometimes competing ways of remembering the past.
Focusing on peasant revolts, deportations, land collectivization, gendered labor, Roma social worlds,institutions, consumption, and nostalgia, it uncovers the cultural textures of everyday socialism that often remain absent from official histories. This ethnography shows how ordinary people negotiated state power, reworked traditions, and forged meanings that continue to shape post-socialist identities. By opening avenues for transnational comparison across Eastern Europe and beyond, the study engages with key debates in the anthropology of socialism and post-socialism.
Raluca Mateoc is Senior Research Associate in Religious Studies within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
