| Introduction | 3 |
| 1 | What Was Socialism, and Why Did It Fall? | 19 |
| 2 | The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania | 39 |
| 3 | From Parent-State to Family Patriarchs: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Eastern Europe | 61 |
| 4 | Nationalism and National Sentiment in Postsocialist Romania | 83 |
| 5 | Civil Society or Nation? "Europe" in the Symbolism of Postsocialist Politics | 104 |
| 6 | The Elasticity of Land: Problems of Property Restitution in Transylvania | 133 |
| 7 | Faith, Hope, and Caritas in the Land of the Pyramids, Romania, 1990-1994 | 168 |
| 8 | A Transition from Socialism to Feudalism? Thoughts on the Postsocialist State | 204 |
| Afterword | 229 |
| Notes | 235 |
| Index | 289 |
