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.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Table of Contents
- List of Tables
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 The Argument
- Chapter 2 Two Villages
- Chapter 3 The Construction and Deconstruction of Rural
- 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