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Peasants under siege : the collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962 / / Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery



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Autore: Kligman Gail Visualizza persona
Titolo: Peasants under siege : the collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962 / / Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2011
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (533 p.)
Disciplina: 338.1/849809045
Soggetto topico: Collectivization of agriculture - Romania - History - 20th century
Agriculture and state - Romania - History - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Romania Politics and government 1944-1989
Soggetto non controllato: Communism
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
Altri autori: VerderyKatherine  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Altri titoli varianti: Collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962
Titolo autorizzato: Peasants under siege  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-16386-1
9786613163868
1-4008-4043-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 996248273703316
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