The ethnographies collected here offer a surprising and compelling picture of change in Russia and Eastern Europe found in no other book to date. The collection brings together a wide-ranging group of authors from sociology, anthropology, and political science to reveal the complex relationships that still exist between the former socialist world and the world today.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Traders, "Disorder," and Citizenship Regimes in Provincial Russia Chapter 3 Fuzzy Property: Rights, Power, and Identity in Transylvania's Decollectivization Chapter 4 Barter of the Bankrupt: The Politics of Demonetization in Russia's Federal State Chapter 5 Slick Salesmen and Simple People: Negotiated Capitalism in a Privatized Polish Firm Chapter 6 "But We Are Still Mothers": Gender, State, and the Construction of Need in Hungary Chapter 7 Deconstructing Socialism in Bulgaria Chapter 8 Redefining the Collective: Russian Mineworkers in Transition Chapter 9 Portable Worlds: On the Limits of Replication in the Czech and Slovak Republics

Michael Burawoy is professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Katherine Verdery is professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan.