East European Communities: The Struggle for Balance in Turbulent Times

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Contents vii
• Preface ix
• 1 - Communities in the East European Transition 1
• Notes 6
• References 6
• Part One - Challenges of Privatization and the Market 7
• 2 - Labyrinths of Freedom: an Agricultural Community in Post-Socialist Hungary 9
• Notes 21
• References 23
• 3 - An Old Song in a New Voice: Decollectivization in Bulgaria 25
• Notes 43
• References 44
• 4 - Two Incidents on the Plains in Southern Transylvania: Pitfalls of Privatization in a Romanian Community 47
• Notes 61
• References 62
• 5 - Agricultural Transformation and Social Change in an East German County 65
• Notes 80
• References 82
• 6 - A Polish Village in the Process of Transformation Towards a Market Economy 85
• References 97
• Part Two - Society Up for Grabs 99
• 7 - Ferenc Erdei and Antal Vermes: the Struggle for Balance in Rural Hungary 101
• Notes 112
• References 113
• 8 - Changing Conflicts and Their Resolution in Polish Communities Today 115
• Notes 134
• References 135
• 9 - Uneasy Accommodation: Ethnicity and Politics in Rural Bulgaria 137
• Notes 154
• References 155
• 10 - All is Possible, Nothing is Certain: the Horizons of Transition in a Romanian Village 159
• References 175
• Part Three - Debates Over Meaning and Identities 177
• 11 - Decollectivization to Poverty and Beyond: Women in Rural East Germany Before and After Unification 179
• Notes 192
• References 193
• 12 - Roma of Shuto Orizari, Macedonia: Class, Politics, and Community 197
• Notes 211
• References 213
• 13 - Social Change as Reflected in the Lives of Bulgarian Villagers 217
• Notes 235
• References 235
• 14 - A Rural Business Class in Transition: Observations from a Polish Region 237
• Notes 247
• References 248
• About the Editor and Contributors 249

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