Peasants under Siege : : The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962 /

Peasants under Siege : : The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962 / / Katherine Verdery, Gail Kligman.

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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....

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Kligman, Gail,
Verdery, Katherine,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (520 p.) :; 24 halftones. 2 line illus. 9 tables. 1 map.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Tables
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Laying the Groundwork
  • Chapter 1. The Soviet Blueprint
  • Chapter 2. The Village Community and the Politics of Collectivization, 1945-62
  • Chapter 3. Creating Party Cadres
  • Part II. Pedagogies of Power: Technologies of Rural Transformation
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 4. Pedagogies of Knowledge Production and Contestation
  • Chapter 5. Pedagogies of Persuasion
  • Chapter 6. Fomenting Class War
  • Part III. Outcomes
  • Chapter 7. The Collectives Are Formed
  • Chapter 8. The Restratification and Bureaucratization of Rural Life
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix I. Project and Participants
  • Appendix II. Methodology
  • Appendix III. List of Interviewers and Respondents
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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