A Tale of Two Villages

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 t...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (auth)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Central European University Press 2010
Subjects:
Online Access:Get Fullteks
DOAB: description of the publication
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
LEADER 01850naaaa2200457uu 4500
001 doab_20_500_12854_60475
005 20210212
020 |a 9789633860076 
020 |a 9789639776784 
041 0 |a English 
042 |a dc 
100 1 |a Alina Mungiu-Pippidi  |4 auth 
245 1 0 |a A Tale of Two Villages 
260 |b Central European University Press  |c 2010 
506 0 |a Open Access  |2 star  |f Unrestricted online access 
520 |a 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. ""One of Romania's foremost s... 
540 |a All rights reserved  |4 http://oapen.org/content/about-rights 
546 |a English 
653 |a modernization 
653 |a peasant 
653 |a Romania 
653 |a social conflict 
653 |a city 
653 |a commune 
653 |a urbanization 
653 |a agriculture 
653 |a rural political culture 
653 |a rural migration 
653 |a elite 
653 |a collectivization 
653 |a land reform 
653 |a property 
653 |a land 
653 |a Southeastern Europe 
653 |a social conditions 
653 |a rural property 
653 |a village 
653 |a Securitate (Ceauşescu's political police) 
653 |a rural residence 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u http://books.openedition.org/ceup/2446  |7 0  |z Get Fullteks 
856 4 0 |a www.oapen.org  |u https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/60475  |7 0  |z DOAB: description of the publication