Albania Today

A Portrait of Post-Communist Turbulence

Bibliographic Data

ID19919581
AuthorsClarissa De Waal (corresponding author)
Year2005
Publication date2005-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueAlbania Today (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755619740
OpenAlexW4244755807
Open LibraryOL22710075M
ISBN9780755619740
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Clarissa de Waal's new book explains Albania's 'transition' from Communism via the experiences of a diverse range of families, highland villagers, urban elite and shanty dwellers - whose lives she has followed since 1992. As such, this is a history - of economic, social and political change - told from the perspective of the participants. We see how far the archaic world of customary law continues to pervade highland life, from dispute settlement to arranged marriages. At the same time, the author shows us members of the ex-communist elite in Tirana embracing rentier capitalism, while squatters on state farmland live under constant threat of eviction. Albania, the author suggests, is a country wracked by contradictions. Clarissa de Waal's new book will inform and engage all those interested in Albania and southeast Europe. Catapulted from totalitarianism to free market capitalism in 1991, Albania emerged from half a century of isolation to

Capitalism · Communism · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Elite · Eviction · Political science · Politics · Balkans: History, Politics, Society · History · Law

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