Integrating the Rural World : Economy, Society and Politics in Central and South-Eastern Europe, 1848-1939 / Sorin Radu, Constantin Iordachi, Ovidiu Buruiana, Andrei Sora.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Radu, Sorin, editor.

Iordachi, Constantin, editor.

Buruiană, Ovidiu, editor.

Sora, Andrei, editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Budapest New York Central European University Press, [2026]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This volume focuses on how the national elites in Central and South-Eastern Europe perceived the peasantry during the process of building the modern state and democratic political systems. The central theme of the discussion is the integration of peasants into the political system, with the aim of transforming them from the dependent subjects of various public figures to active citizens. The politicization of the rural world, in terms of increasing peasants' participation in public affairs and their identification with ideas concerning the "common good," was integral to the modern transformation of societies in these regions. The studies in this volume examine the relationship between the peasantry and central and local state institutions, such as the administration, schools and the army; associations of all kinds; and social figures, including intellectuals, teachers, local notables and priests, who sought to uplift the rural world as part of the modernization agenda.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Subjects or Citizens : How Peasants Became Citizens and Integrated into Nation-states in Central and South-eastern Europe / Sorin Radu, Ovidiu Buruiană, Andrei Florin Sora

I. Rural Economy and Agrarian Modernization

1. Peasants as Industrial Workers in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia : The Pathway to Modernization and Urbanization / Jelena Rafailović

2. Peasants into Farmers and Citizens : Economic and Political Tensions after the Interwar Agrarian Reforms in Greater Romania / Dietmar Müller

3. The Price of Modernity : The Policies of the Polish and Soviet States toward Peasants (1918-1939-1941) / Marek Wierzbicki

4. Agrarian Reform, Agronomic Innovation and State Intervention in Interwar Greece / George Gassias

II. Peasantry, Nation-Building and Cultural Integration

5. Peasants and State-Building in Romania : The Dialectics of War, Rebellion and Land Reform / Claudiu Crăciun

6. Peasantry and the Building of the Romanian Nation in Inter-Imperial Context / Valer Simion Cosma

7. The Print Media of German Settlers in the Late Russian Empire : Between Traditions, Adaptation and Integration in the Age of High Industrialization / Lilija Wedel

8. Schooling and Extracurricular Activity in Romania (1900-1940) : Primary Education as Agent of Transformation in the Rural World / Ovidiu Buruiană, Cătălin Botoșineanu

III. Political Integration and Rural Power Structures

9. The Parliamentary Representation of Constituencies Inhabited by Nationalities in Dualist-Era Hungary: An Examination through Statistical Data / József Pap

10. Romanian Candidates and Rural Voters in Eastern Hungary , the Banat and Transylvania (1880s to 1918) / Ovidiu Iudean, Vlad Popovici

11. Between Rural Roots and Political Power : The Case of the Members of Parliament with Rural Backgrounds in Interwar Transylvania / Daniela Mârza

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed August 05 2026)

ISBN:

9789633869390