A Tale of Two Villages : Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
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 Ceausescu's birthplace. The tw...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Budapest, Hungary ;, New York, New York : : Central European University Press,, 2010. ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | Multiple English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 pages) |
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| Summary: | 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 Ceausescu'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. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9633860075 2821815204 1283248425 9786613248428 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |