East European Communities

David A. Kideckel is Professor and Chair of the Anthropology Department at Central Connecticut State University. He recently published The Solitude of Collectivism: Romanian Villagers to the Revolution and Beyond (Cornell) and co-edited the Anthropology of East Europe Review special issue on War Among the Yugoslavs: Anthropological Perspectives. Currently he is involved in a project analyzing the socio-political implications of privatization aid to transitional east Europe.

• Preface -- Communities in the East European Transition -- Challenges of Privatization and the Market -- Labyrinths of Freedom: An Agricultural Community in Post-Socialist Hungary -- An Old Song in a New Voice: Decollectivization in Bulgaria -- Two Incidents on the Plains in Southern Transylvania: Pitfalls of Privatization in a Romanian Community -- Agricultural Transformation and Social Change in an East German County -- A Polish Village in the Process of Transformation Towards a Market Economy -- Society Up For Grabs -- Ferenc Erdei and Antal Vermes: The Struggle for Balance in Rural Hungary -- Changing Conflicts and Their Resolution in Polish Communities Today -- Uneasy Accommodation: Ethnicity and Politics in Rural Bulgaria -- All Is Possible, Nothing Is Certain: The Horizons of Transition In a Romanian Village -- Decollectivization to Poverty and Beyond: Women in Rural East Germany Before and After Unification -- Roma of Shuto Orizari, Macedonia: Class, Politics, and Community -- Social Change as Reflected in the lIves of Bulgarian Villagers -- A Rural Business Class in Transition: Observations from a Polish Region