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 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
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List of TablesAcknowledgementsChapter 1 The ArgumentChapter 2 Two VillagesChapter 3 The Construction and Deconstruction of Rural PropertyChapter 4 The Invention of Social ConflictChapter 5 The Destruction and Replacement of the EliteChapter 6 The Manipulation of LifestylesChapter 7 From the Dependent Peasant to the Citizen-Peasant: The Bases of a Rural Political CultureChapter 8 Between the Past and the FutureReferencesAppendicesIndex