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National Ideology Under Socialism
SOCIETIES AND CULTURE IN EAST-CENTRAL EUROPE General Editors: Irena Grudzinska-Gross and Jan T. Gross 1. Jan Jozef Lipski, KOR: A History cf the Workers'Defense Committee in Poland, 1976-1981, translated by Olga Amsterdamska and Gene M. Moore 2. Adam Michnik, Letters from Prison and Other Essays, translated by Maya Latynski 3. Maciej topinski, Marcin Moskit, and Mariusz Wilk, Konspira: Solidarity Underground, translated by Jane Cave 4. Alfred Erich Senn, Lithuania Awakening 5. Jaff Schatz, The Rise and Fall ofthe Generation of Jewish Communists of Poland 6. Jadwiga Staniszkis, The Dynamics of the Breakthrough in Eastern Europe, translated by Chester A. Kisiel 7. Katherine Verdery, National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceau$escu's Romania
National Ideology Under Socialism Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceau§escu's Romania
Katherine Verdery
U N I V E R S I T Y OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley / Los Angeles / Oxford
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Verdery, Katherine. National ideology under socialism : identity and cultural politics in Ceau§escu's Romania / Katherine Verdery. p. cm. — (Societies and culture in East-Central Europe) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-520-07216-2 (alk. paper) 1. Romania—Cultural policy. 2. Romania—Politics and government—1944-1989. 3. Intellectuals—Romania. 4. Ceau§escu, Nicolae. I. Title. II. Series. DR267.V47 1991 306'.09498—dc20 90-47727 CIP
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