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A Tale of Two Villages Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alina Mungiu-Pippidi., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Multiple languages
- Subjects (All):
- Collective farms--Romania--History.
- Collective farms.
- Romania--Rural conditions.
- Romania.
- Romania--Social conditions--1945-1989.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (232 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Budapest, Hungary ; New York, New York : Central European University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Text file
- Summary:
- 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 two villages capture among themselves nearly a century of dramatic transformation and social engineering, ending up with their charged heritage in the present European Union.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-003-71810-8
- 963-386-007-5
- 2-8218-1520-4
- 1-283-24842-5
- 9786613248428
- 9781003718109
- OCLC:
- 816860866
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