Subverting Communism in Romania - Law and Private Property 19451965

This study traces the Romanian communist regime's attempts to extinguish private property in housing. The author analyzes the homeowners' resistance through law, the subsequent remaking of private property, and the hybrid legal culture of property in early communist Romania.

List of contents

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

About the author

By Mihaela Serban

Summary

This study traces the Romanian communist regime’s attempts to extinguish private property in housing. The author analyzes the homeowners’ resistance through law, the subsequent remaking of private property, and the hybrid legal culture of property in early communist Romania.

Product details

• Authors: Mihaela ¿Erban, Mihaela Erban, Mihaela Serban
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9781498595674
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-9567-4
• No. of pages: 294
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Eastern Europe, Russia, HISTORY / World, Politics & government, Politics and government, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, History of other geographical groupings and regions, History of other lands, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / Soviet Era