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creators_name: Georgescu, Diana
title: 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]
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divisions: UCL
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abstract: 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).
date: 2022
date_type: published
publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2022.109
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type: review
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 1972787
doi: 10.1017/slr.2022.109
lyricists_name: Georgescu, Diana
lyricists_id: DGEOR91
actors_name: Georgescu, Diana
actors_id: DGEOR91
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Slavic Review
volume: 81
number: 1
pagerange: 226-227
pages: 2
issn: 0037-6779
citation:        Georgescu, Diana;      (2022)    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].           [Review].        Slavic Review , 81  (1)   pp. 226-227.    10.1017/slr.2022.109 <https://doi.org/10.1017/slr.2022.109>.       Green open access   
 
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