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Book SynopsisThis text assesses the impact of socialist collectivization on Bulgaria's rural economy over the past 50 years through a case study of one village. Since 1989, Bulgarian villagers have struggled to defend their earlier gains against both proto-capitalists and rehabilitated socialists.
Trade Review“Gerald Creed has written the best book available on contemporary events in Bulgaria. It clearly demonstrates why ethnographic methods are essential to understanding events since 1989: such methods reveal how daily practice ‘domesticates’ both socialism and its aftermath, disrupting the calculus of policies imposed from above. Written in accessible, jargon-free language, this book will be useful to students and policy-makers as well as to specialists of the region.”
—Katherine Verdery,University of Michigan
“This book gives the reader a ground-up view of how socialist economics worked for ordinary villagers in the late 1980s and how they reacted to and interpreted the subsequent transition. The scholarship is superior and the work is a major contribution to East European and (post) Soviet studies.”
—Carol Silverman,University of Oregon
