The book "explores the role of law in everyday life and
as a mechanism for social change during early communism in Romania. Mihaela
Serban focuses on the regime’s attempts to extinguish private property in
housing through housing nationalization and expropriation. This study of early
communist law illustrates that law is never just an instrument of state power,
particularly over the long term and from a ground up perspective.
Even during
its most totalitarian phase, communist law enjoyed a certain level of autonomy
at the most granular level and consequently was simultaneously a space of state
power and resistance to power. The book draws from archives recently made
available in Romania, which have opened up new perspectives for understanding a
mundane yet crucial part of the modern human experience: one’s home and the
institution of private property that often sustains it."
More details on Rowman & Littlefield website.
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