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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Table of Contents:
- The argument
- Two villages
- The construction and the deconstruction of rural property
- The invention of social conflict
- The destruction and replacement of the elite
- The manipulation of lifestyles
- From the dependent peasant to the citizen-peasant : the bases of a rural political culture
- Between the past and the future.