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Surviving property: Resistance against urban housing nationalization during the transition to communism (Romania, 1950–1965)

Special Issue Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next Generation

ISBN: 978-1-84950-750-9, eISBN: 978-1-84950-751-6

Publication date: 17 March 2010

Abstract

This chapter examines the survival of private property during the early transition to communism in Romania at the intersection of state policies, ideologies, and legal practices. It focuses on petitions contesting urban housing nationalization in the city of Timişoara between 1950 and 1965. I argue that petitions are partially successful acts of microresistance through law that contested the communist regime's concept of private property, played a role in halting further urban housing nationalization, undermined the regime's attempts at building legitimacy through legality, and challenged ideas about legal instrumentalism in a communist system.

Citation

Şerban Rosen, M. (2010), "Surviving property: Resistance against urban housing nationalization during the transition to communism (Romania, 1950–1965)", Sarat, A. (Ed.) Special Issue Interdisciplinary Legal Studies: The Next Generation (Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 51), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 29-65. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1059-4337(2010)0000051005

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