A Tale of Two Villages: Coerced Modernization in the East European CountrysideCentral European University Press, 2010/01/01 - 219 ページ 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 Ceau?escu?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 social critics, Alina Mungiu-Pippidi offers a valuable look at several decades of policy that marginalized that country?s rural population, from the 1918 land reform to the post-1989 property restitution. Illustrating her arguments with a close comparison of two contrasting villages, she describes the actions of a long series of ?predatory elites,? from feudal landowners through the Communist Party through post-communist leaders, all of whom maintained the rural population?s dependency. A forceful concluding chapter shows that its prospects for improvement are scarcely better within the EU. Romania?s villagers have an eminent and spirited advocate in the author.? |
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Chapter 3 The Construction and Deconstruction of Rural | 47 |
Chapter 4 The Invention of Social Conflict | 85 |
Chapter 5 The Destruction and Replacement of the Elite | 105 |
Chapter 6 The Manipulation of Lifestyles | 131 |
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