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Record Nr.

UNINA9910133920803321

Autore

Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Central European University Press, 2010

Budapest, Hungary ; ; New York, New York : , : Central European University Press, , 2010

©2002

ISBN

963-386-007-5

2-8218-1520-4

1-283-24842-5

9786613248428

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 pages)

Disciplina

334.68309498

Soggetti

Collective farms - Romania - History

HISTORY / Europe / Eastern

Romania Rural conditions

Romania Social conditions 1945-1989

Lingua di pubblicazione

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.