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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2013-1998
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Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (230 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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