A Tale of Two Villages : Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside

A Tale of Two Villages Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside

This dramatic story of land and power from twentieth-century Eastern Europe is set in two extraordinary villages: a rebel village, where peasants fought the advent of Communism and became its first martyrs, and a model village turned forcibly into a town, Dictator Ceausescu's birthplace. The tw...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Multilingüe
Publicado: Budapest, Hungary ; New York, New York : Central European University Press 2010
2010.
Materias:
Collective farms > Romania > History.
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern.
Romania > Rural conditions.
Romania > Social conditions > 1945-1989.
Agriculture, Collectivization, Communism, Farmers, Postcommunism, Restitution, Rural conditions.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009438800006719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The argument
  • Two villages
  • The construction and the deconstruction of rural property
  • The invention of social conflict
  • The destruction and replacement of the elite
  • The manipulation of lifestyles
  • From the dependent peasant to the citizen-peasant : the bases of a rural political culture
  • Between the past and the future.

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