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The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Translyvania

Katherin Verdery
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  • Contents

  • Cover
  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page xi)
  • Preface (page xiii)
  • Acknowledgments (page xv)
  • Note on Pronunciation, Romanian Names, Terms, and Translations (page xix)
  • Introduction: Property, Value, and Global Transformation (page 1)
  • Part I: Making, Unmaking, and Remaking Owners (page 33)
  • 1. Property in Socialism: Collectivization, Administrative Rights, and the Circulation of Goods (page 40)
  • 2. Unmaking Socialist Agriculture: Contexts of Restitution in the 1990s (page 77)
  • 3. How Hectares Vanished: Decollectivization Politics in Vlaicu (page 116)
  • 4. New Kin, New Serfs, New Masters: Transformed Social Relations and the Meanings of Land (page 158)
  • Part II: Realizing the Powers of Ownership (page 185)
  • 5. The Death of a Peasantry: From Smallholders to Rentiers (page 190)
  • 6. Of Credits and Credibility: The Rise and Fall of the Vlaicu Association (page 229)
  • 7. The Dynamics of Decapitalization: The Fate of Vlaicu's State Farms (page 273)
  • 8. From Debts to Dallas: Value Transformation and the Rise of Supertenants (page 310)
  • Conclusion: Property Process and Effects (page 346)
  • Appendix: Inventory of Objects Moved from the Collective Farm Patrimony into the Vlaicu Association at Its Founding, 1992 (page 365)
  • Notes (page 367)
  • Glossary (page 391)
  • References (page 393)
  • Index (page 411)
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Published: 2003
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781501717253 (ebook)
  • 9780801488696 (paper)
  • 9780801441974 (hardcover)
Subject
  • European 1: General & Multiperiod
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