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A Tale of Two Villages : Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside / Alina Mungiu-Pippidi.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2010]Copyright date: 2010Description: 1 online resource (230 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9789633860076
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 334/.68309498
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Argument -- Chapter 2 Two Villages -- Chapter 3 The Construction and Deconstruction of Rural Property -- 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
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 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9789633860076

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1 The Argument -- Chapter 2 Two Villages -- Chapter 3 The Construction and Deconstruction of Rural Property -- 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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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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