Mihaela Serban

Subverting Communism in Romania (eBook, ePUB)

Law and Private Property 1945-1965

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Subverting Communism in Romania explores the role of law in everyday life and as a mechanism for social change during early communism in Romania. Mihaela Serban focuses on the regime's attempts to extinguish private property in housing through housing nationalization and expropriation. This study of early communist law illustrates that law is never just an instrument of state power, particularly over the long term and from a ground up perspective. Even during its most totalitarian phase, communist law enjoyed a certain level of autonomy at the most granular level and consequently was simultaneously a space of state power and resistance to power. The book draws from archives recently made available in Romania, which have opened up new perspectives for understanding a mundane yet crucial part of the modern human experience: one's home and the institution of private property that often sustains it.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781498595681
• Artikelnr.: 57471303

Autorenporträt

Mihaela Serban is associate professor of law and society at Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Law, Power, and Resistance in Early Communist Romania
Chapter One: The Many Faces of Communist Legality
Chapter Two: Law, Subjectivity, and Legal Consciousness
Chapter Three: Property in Extremis: The Taking of Homes
Chapter Four: Resistance to Takings and the Construction of Socialist
Subjectivities
Chapter Five: Legality, Ideology, and the Politics of Takings
Chapter Six: Surviving Property: Private Property in Early Communism
Conclusion