Shannon Woodcock is a historian who has published widely in recent Romanian and Albanian history, particularly the history of anti-Romani racism in Romania, post-socialist discourses of sexuality as identity in Eastern Europe, and the history of everyday life in Albania under Enver Hoxha (1945-85). Shannon is the main editor of Sextures: E-journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics.

• IntroductionChapter OneThoma Çaraoshi joins the party and sells the sheepChapter TwoLife is warChapter ThreeStories to make you laugh and cry - Mevlude DemaChapter FourJust one moment can break a soul - Diana Keçi Chapter FiveInvisible barriers - Liljana MajkoChapter SixEvery historian has their past - Professor Riza HasaChapter SevenDay trip to DragotChapter EightChildren of the lost generations - Jeras NaçoConclusionAcknowledgmentsReferences and further readingIndex

Life is War gives voice to the experiences of Albanians – men, women, Romani, Vlachs among them – who survived Enver Hoxha’s notoriously repressive and increasingly isolated regime. The stories Shannon Woodcock chronicles enrich our limited knowledge of everyday life in Albania, and are a welcome addition to social histories and collected memory studies of the communist period in Eastern Europe.

Shannon Woodcock is a historian who has published widely in recent Romanian and Albanian history, particularly the history of anti-Romani racism in Romania, post-socialist discourses of sexuality as identity in Eastern Europe, and the history of everyday life in Albania under Enver Hoxha (1945-85). Shannon is the main editor of Sextures: E-journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics.

• IntroductionChapter OneThoma Çaraoshi joins the party and sells the sheepChapter TwoLife is warChapter ThreeStories to make you laugh and cry - Mevlude DemaChapter FourJust one moment can break a soul - Diana Keçi Chapter FiveInvisible barriers - Liljana MajkoChapter SixEvery historian has their past - Professor Riza HasaChapter SevenDay trip to DragotChapter EightChildren of the lost generations - Jeras NaçoConclusionAcknowledgmentsReferences and further readingIndex

Life is War gives voice to the experiences of Albanians – men, women, Romani, Vlachs among them – who survived Enver Hoxha’s notoriously repressive and increasingly isolated regime. The stories Shannon Woodcock chronicles enrich our limited knowledge of everyday life in Albania, and are a welcome addition to social histories and collected memory studies of the communist period in Eastern Europe.

Shannon Woodcock is a historian who has published widely in recent Romanian and Albanian history, particularly the history of anti-Romani racism in Romania, post-socialist discourses of sexuality as identity in Eastern Europe, and the history of everyday life in Albania under Enver Hoxha (1945-85). Shannon is the main editor of Sextures: E-journal for Sexualities, Cultures and Politics.

• IntroductionChapter OneThoma Çaraoshi joins the party and sells the sheepChapter TwoLife is warChapter ThreeStories to make you laugh and cry - Mevlude DemaChapter FourJust one moment can break a soul - Diana Keçi Chapter FiveInvisible barriers - Liljana MajkoChapter SixEvery historian has their past - Professor Riza HasaChapter SevenDay trip to DragotChapter EightChildren of the lost generations - Jeras NaçoConclusionAcknowledgmentsReferences and further readingIndex

Life is War gives voice to the experiences of Albanians – men, women, Romani, Vlachs among them – who survived Enver Hoxha’s notoriously repressive and increasingly isolated regime. The stories Shannon Woodcock chronicles enrich our limited knowledge of everyday life in Albania, and are a welcome addition to social histories and collected memory studies of the communist period in Eastern Europe.