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REVIEWS OF BOOKS

How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices that Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business. Alena V. Ledeneva. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2006. In International Affairs, Chatham House, vol. 84, no. 3, May 2008, pp. 591-592.

The Vanishing Hectare: Property and Value in Postsocialist Transylvania, Katherine Verdery. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 2003. In American Ethnologist, vol. 32, no. 4, November 2005.

From Shock to Therapy: The Political Economy of Postsocialist Transformation, Grzegorz W. Kolodko. Oxford University Press, 20 April 2000. In WIDER Studies in Development Economics, series.

Anthropology of Policy: Critical Perspectives on Governance and Power, Cris Shore and Susan Wright, eds. New York: Routledge, 1997. In American Anthropologist, vol. 101, no. 3, September 1999, pp. 43-44.

Surviving Post-Socialism: Local Strategies and Regional Responses in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union, Sue Bridger and Frances Pine, eds. London: Routledge, 1998. In Europe-Asia Studies, vol. 50, no. 7, November 1998, p. 1277.

The Object of Labor: Commodification in Socialist Hungary, Martha Lampland. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. In American Anthropologist, vol. 99, no. 2, June 1997, p. 435.

The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power:  The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism in Poland.  Jan Kubik.  Pennsylvania:  The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994. In American Ethnologist, vol. 22, no. 4, November 1995, pp. 1076-1077.

The Skeleton at the Feast. C.M. Hann. University of Kent at Canterbury: Centre for Social Anthropology and Computing, 1995. In The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, no. 3, vol. 4, September 1998, pp. 585-586.

A Homeland for Strangers: An Introduction to Mennonites in Poland and Prussia, Peter J. Klassen. Fresno, CA: Center for Mennonite Brethren Studies, 1989. In Mennonite Life, March 1991, pp. 23-24.