National Ideology Under Socialism : Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania

Katherine Verdery
University of California Press
 9780520203587
0-520-20358-5

The current transformation of many Eastern European societies is impossible to understand without comprehending the intellectual struggles surrounding nationalism in the region. Anthropologist Katherine.

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Verdery shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule.