Subverting communism in Romania : law and private property, 1945-1965 /: law and private property, 1945-1965. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Mihaela Șerban.
• Authors: Șerban Rosen, Mihaela
• Contents: Cover; Subverting Communism in Romania; Subverting Communism in Romania: Law and Private Property, 1945-1965; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Modernity and Communism in Romania; Power and Resistance in Communist Romania; Timişoara, Romania; Law and Property in Pre-Communist Romania; Notes; Chapter 1; The Many Faces of Communist Legality; Repressive Law; Statist-Instrumentalist Legality; Anti-Formalism and Substantive (Class) Justice; Socialist Legal Positivism; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 2; Law, Subjectivity, and Legal Consciousness Legal Consciousness and the New Socialist SubjectTransforming the Justice System; Law and Spaces for Resistance; Notes; Chapter 3; Property in Extremis; Justifying the Takings: Exploitation and the Housing Crisis; Houses as Homes and Assets; Preparing for Takings: The 1948 Census; Urban Housing Nationalization; Indirect Housing Nationalization; Expropriation; Conclusion; Notes; Chapter 4; Resistance to Takings and the Construction of Socialist Subjectivities; Petitions as Micro-Resistance; Legal Consciousness and the Reluctant Making of Socialist Subjects; Discourses of Resistance; Notes Chapter 5Legality, Ideology, and the Politics of Takings; Law in Action: The Implementation of Takings; Law and Politics in the Nationalization Process; Arbitrariness, Formalism, and Substantive Justice in the Nationalization Criteria; The Restitution Process; The Ambivalence of Courts; Arbitrariness and Its Discontents; Notes; Chapter 6; Surviving Property; An Uneasy Marriage: Capitalist Property and Socialism; Capitalist and Socialist Property Discourses; Private versus Personal Property; Surviving Property: Resistance and Continuities in the Institution of Property Restitutions and the Circulation of HousingThe State as Landlord; Conclusion; Notes; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author
• Publisher Details: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (295 pages)
• Subjects: 335.4309498; 324.2498075; Communism -- Romania -- History -- 20th century; Property and socialism; Communism -- Romania; Communism; Romania; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498595681; 1498595685
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 21, 2019).
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