A Tale of Two Villages

A Tale of Two Villages

Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside

  • Author: Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina
  • Publisher: Central European University Press
  • ISBN: 9789633860076
  • Place of publication:  Budapest , Hungary
  • Year of digital publication: 2010
  • Month: May
  • Pages: 230
  • DDC: 334/.68309498
  • Language: English
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

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