Twenty-five years after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, the European East-West divide has not been relegated to the annals of history. Among other areas, it persists tenaciously within the ethnological/anthropological sciences practised in Europe. This article deconstructs and challenges reified differences between ethnologies in Central-Eastern Europe and Western, mainly British-s...

Restructuring and reorienting socialist economies is an integral but also deeply problematic aspect of their post-socialist transformation. 1 The full range of problems involved here emerges most clearly when one recognizes at the outset that economic activities themselves are always socially embedded and socially regulated and that they are also overdetermined by various geo-political, socio-c...

Ethnic conflict remains surprisingly persistent throughout the world. The persistence is particularly surprising in socialist countries, where one might have thought that the narrowing of income gaps between all ethnic groups, the favored investment projects in ethnic minority regions, the official emphasis on equal education and occupational opportunity (often in favor of minority groups), and...

This paper discusses both textual and structural legacies of socialism in Croatian popular music since the collapse of socialism and Yugoslavia. Yugoslav socialism struggled to reconcile socialist consciousness and capitalist consumerism, forcing the producers of popular culture to make sense of the political  eld that surrounded them and put ideology into practice. The structural conditions o...

We study the following problem: party A’s secret input is a, party B ’s secret input is b, and party C ’s input is empty; they want to know if a = b with restriction that A and B should not learn anything more than what is implied by their secret inputs and the comparison result, and C should not learn anything about a or b except if a = b. This problem can be seen as a variant of the socialist...