06676nam 2201561 a 450 99624827370331620230126202551.01-283-16386-197866131638681-4008-4043-010.1515/9781400840434(CKB)2550000000040250(EBL)729959(OCoLC)744616945(SSID)ssj0000524740(PQKBManifestationID)11318589(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524740(PQKBWorkID)10488181(PQKB)11728359(MiAaPQ)EBC729959(StDuBDS)EDZ0000515056(MdBmJHUP)muse36986(DE-B1597)447255(OCoLC)979579309(DE-B1597)9781400840434(Au-PeEL)EBL729959(CaPaEBR)ebr10481983(CaONFJC)MIL316386(dli)HEB32504(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000105(EXLCZ)99255000000004025020110325d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPeasants under siege the collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962 /Gail Kligman and Katherine VerderyCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Press20111 online resource (533 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-14972-0 0-691-14973-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Laying the groundwork -- The Soviet blueprint -- The village community and the politics of collectivization, 1945-62 -- Creating party cadres -- Pedagogies of power : technologies of rural transformation -- Pedagogies of knowledge production and contestation -- Pedagogies of persuasion -- Fomenting class war -- Outcomes -- The collectives are formed -- The restratification and bureaucratization of rural life -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Project and participants -- Appendix II. Methodology -- Appendix III. List of interviewers and respondents.In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery examine how collectivization assaulted the very foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare" yet saturated with vindictive personal struggles. Collectivization not only overturned property relations, the authors argue, but was crucial in creating the Party-state that emerged, its mechanisms of rule, and the "new persons" that were its subjects. The book explores how ill-prepared cadres, themselves unconvinced of collectivization's promises, implemented technologies and pedagogies imported from the Soviet Union through actions that contributed to the excessive use of force, which Party leaders were often unable to control. In addition, the authors show how local responses to the Party's initiatives compelled the regime to modify its plans and negotiate outcomes. Drawing on archival documents, oral histories, and ethnographic data, Peasants under Siege sheds new light on collectivization in the Soviet era and on the complex tensions underlying and constraining political authority.Collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962Collectivization of agricultureRomaniaHistory20th centuryAgriculture and stateRomaniaHistory20th centuryRomaniaPolitics and government1944-1989Communism.Communist Party.Eastern Europe.MarxistЌeninist principles.Party cadres.Party-state.Romania.Romanian villagers.Securitate cadres.Soviet Union.Soviet blueprint.agrarian population.agricultural collectivization.associations.bureaucratic apparatus.bureaucratization.categories.chiaburs.class equality.class stratification.class war.class warfare.collective farms.collectives.collectivization.colonization.communist regime.consent.denunciation.ecological adaptation.economic adaptation.ethnic composition.ethnonational groups.gender roles.generational expectations.industrial development.industrial facilities.interwar fascist movement.kinship.land ownership.land reform.local politics.modern state-making.new social order.new socialist person.personalistic ties.personhood.persuasion work.petition writing.political authority.political insurgents.propaganda.religion.religious composition.replica regimes.rural life.sabotage.social conflict.social engineering.social mobility.social organization.social practices.social relations.social status.socialist body politic.status inequality.uprisings.village life.village social organization.village status systems.Collectivization of agricultureHistoryAgriculture and stateHistory338.1/849809045Kligman Gail513109Verdery Katherine513110MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK996248273703316Peasants under siege761040UNISA