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Katherine Verdery, an American anthropologist specialized in the study of Socialist Romania, enlightens in this interview some important steps of her career during the Cold War. She first points out how Cold War was influent on her intellectual and professional development. She also stresses how fieldworks behind the ‘Iron Curtain’ changed her analysis of Socialism and helped her to dissipate the effect of the spirit of the Cold War. Finally, she analyses why the circulation of anthropological knowledge between Romania and the United States was difficult: it was not only because of the constraints of the Cold War but mostly because of the differences between two original intellectual traditions.