The Bread MacHine Book by Marjie Lambert

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The Bread MacHine Book by Marjie Lambert

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The Bread MacHine Book by Marjie Lambert

This book analyzes two Romanian villages - 2 Mai and Vama Veche - as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.
Ruxandra Petrinca is a postdoctoral fellow at the Research Institute of the University of Bucharest and a researcher at the Museum of Communist Horrors in Romania.​

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ISBN 13 9781861551207
ISBN 10 1861551207
Title The Bread MacHine Book
Author Marjie Lambert
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher New Burlington Books
Year published 2003-01-01
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.