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In: Studies in Law, Politics and Society Vol. 51:29-65, 2010
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This paper 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 Timisoara between 1950 and 1965. I argue that petitions are partially successful acts of micro-resistance 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