{"product_id":"9780472027194","title":"Marx Went Away--But Karl Stayed Behind","description":"When it appeared in 1983, Caroline Humphrey's \u003ci\u003eKarl Marx Collective\u003c\/i\u003e was the first detailed study of the Soviet collective farm system. Through careful ethnographic work on two collective farms operated in Buryat communities in Siberia, the author presented an absorbing--if dispiriting--account of the actual functioning of a planned economy at the local level.\u003cbr\u003e Now this classic work is back in print in a revised edition that adds new material from the author's most recent research in the former Soviet Union. In two new chapters she documents what has happened to the two farms in the collapsing Russian economy. She finds that collective farms are still the dominant agricultural forms, not out of nostalgic sentiment or loyalty to the Soviet ideal, but from economic and political necessity.\u003cbr\u003e Today the collectives are based on households and small groups coming together out of choice. There have been important resurgences in \"traditional\" thinking about kinship, genealogy, shamanism and mountain cults; and yet all of this is newly formed by its attempt to deal with post-Soviet realities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eMarx Went Away\u003c\/i\u003e will appeal to students and scholars of anthropology, political science, economics, and sociology.\u003cbr\u003e \"The book should be on the shelf of every student of Soviet affairs.\" --\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Caroline Humphrey is Fellow of King's College and Lecturer in Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Michigan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162825638128,"sku":"9780472027194","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780472027194_p0.jpg?v=1763707444","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780472027194","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}