A Tale of Two Villages : : Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside / / Alina Mungiu-Pippidi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
• VerfasserIn: Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina,
• Place / Publishing House: Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; List of Tables --; Acknowledgements --; Chapter 1 The Argument --; Chapter 2 Two Villages --; Chapter 3 The Construction and Deconstruction of Rural Property --; Chapter 4 The Invention of Social Conflict --; Chapter 5 The Destruction and Replacement of the Elite --; Chapter 6 The Manipulation of Lifestyles --; Chapter 7 From the Dependent Peasant to the Citizen-Peasant: The Bases of a Rural Political Culture --; Chapter 8 Between the Past and the Future --; References --; Appendices --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9789633860076; 9783110780550
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi.

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 Ceauşescu'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.