Download or read book What was Socialism, and what Comes Next? written by Katherine Verdery and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1996-03-07 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By analyzing her primary data from Romania and Transylvania and synthesizing information from other sources, Verdery lends a distinctive anthropological perspective to a variety of themes common to political and economic studies on the end of socialism: themes such as "civil society," the creation of market economies, privatization, national and ethnic conflict, and changing gender relations.