background to help illustrate and explain the impact of freedom from state paternalism. She embraces and includes voices, opinions, and experiences of community members to discover that their main concern is lack of security. In a new era of political and economic freedom, they no longer know what each day will bring; the system no longer provides employment, health care, education, housing, and loopholes for living more comfortably. The intricate effects of change on kinship, holidays, agriculture, the perception Hungarians have of themselves, and gendered representations of the nation and its members are unraveled to reveal a community in the midst of reconstructing its identity.

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