What was Socialism and What Comes Next by Kate Verdery (1996).
See Chapter Two: The "Etatization" of Time in Ceausescu's Romania.
This contains empirical details of how Ceausescu managed to control the
time of Romanians through queuing, producing food for collection, and
being forced to attend celebrations. The authour describes such
appropriation of time as ideological inasmuch it prevented socialising
and therefore prohibited the planning of counter-hegemonic challenges to
the rulers.
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