%0 Journal Article
%@ 0037-6779
%A Georgescu, Diana
%D 2022
%F discovery:10178240
%I CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
%J Slavic Review
%N 1
%P 226-227
%T Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania  [By Emanuela Grama. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2019. xviii, 268 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Illustrations. Photographs. Tables. Maps. $60.00, paper]
%U https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10178240/
%V 81
%X Emanuela Grama's Socialist Heritage: The Politics of Past and Place in Romania is a  compelling exploration of heritage making as state-making through the lens of the postwar  and postcommunist transformations of Bucharest's Old Town. Alternatively known as  Lipscani or 'the historic center,' the Old Town is a revealing lens because the socialist and  postsocialist states mediated their relation with their citizens - their strategies of inclusion  and exclusion - via place and material structures like buildings and objects. The book thus  joins a growing body of historical ethnographies of socialist and postsocialist  transformations, particularly those on property restitution, changing regimes of value, and  collectivization like Katherine Verdery's The Vanishing Hectare (2003) and Gail Kligman  and Katherine Verdery's Peasants Under Siege (2011) or works on elite changes and  continuities such as Szelenyi's "Circulation or Reproduction of Elites" (1995).
%Z This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.