Enduring Socialism : : Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation /

Enduring Socialism : : Explorations of Revolution and Transformation, Restoration and Continuation / / ed. by Parvathi Raman, Harry G. West.

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Against the historical backdrop of successive socialist and post-socialist claims to have completely remade society, the contributors to this volume explore the complex and often paradoxical continuities between diverse post-socialist presents and their corresponding socialist and pre-socialist past...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Alexander, Catherine,
Bayly, Susan,
Campbell, John R.,
Hann, Chris,
Humphrey, Caroline,
Klein, Jakob A.,
Latham, Kevin,
Makovicky, Nicolette,
Raman, Parvathi,
Rodgers, Dennis,
West, Harry G.,
HerausgeberIn:
Raman, Parvathi,
West, Harry G.,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2009
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (286 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • INTRODUCTION Poetries of the Past in a Socialist World Remade
  • CHAPTER 1 From Socialist Chiefs to Postsocialist Cadres: Neotraditional Authority in Neoliberal Mozambique
  • CHAPTER 2 ‘For Eating, It’s Guangzhou’: Regional Culinary Traditions and Chinese Socialism
  • CHAPTER 3 Searching for the Time of Beautiful Madness: Of Ruins and Revolution in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua
  • CHAPTER 4 The Object of Morality: Rethinking Informal Networks in Central Europe
  • CHAPTER 5 Vietnamese Narratives of Tradition, Exchange and Friendship in the Worlds of the Global Socialist Ecumene
  • CHAPTER 6 Waste under Socialism and After: A Case Study from Almaty
  • CHAPTER 7 Corruption and the One-party State in Tanzania: The View from Dar es Salaam, 1964–2000
  • CHAPTER 8 Media and the Limits of Cynicism in Postsocialist China
  • CHAPTER 9 The Rooted Anthropologies of East-Central Europe
  • CHAPTER 10 Historical Analogies and the Commune: The Case of Putin/Stolypin
  • CHAPTER 11 Signifying Something: Che Guevara and Neoliberal Alienation in London
  • Index

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