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Heroes and Victims
Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes-from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining the interplay of centrally articulated and locally developed commemorations, Maria Bucur's study engages monumental sites of memory, local funerary markers, rituals, and street names as well as autobiographical writings, novels, oral narratives, and film. This book reveals the ways in which a community's religious, ethnic, economic, regional, and gender traditions shaped local efforts at memorializing its war dead.
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Ambiguous Transitions
Focusing on youth, family, work, and consumption, Ambiguous
Transitions analyzes the interplay between gender and
citizenship postwar Romania. By juxtaposing official sources with
oral histories and socialist policies with everyday practices, Jill
Massino illuminates the gendered dimensions of socialist
modernization and its complex effects on women's roles,
relationships, and identities. Analyzing women as subjects and
agents, the book examines how they negotiated the challenges that
arose as Romanian society modernized, even as it clung to
traditional ideas about gender. Massino concludes by exploring the
ambiguities of postsocialism, highlighting how the legacies of the
past have shaped politics and women's lived experiences since
1989.
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