A Tale of Two Villages Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside

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 Ceausescu's birthplace. The tw...

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Autor principal: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Multilingüe
Publicado: Budapest, Hungary ; New York, New York : Central European University Press 2010
2010.
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Sumario: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 Ceausescu'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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (232 pages)
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Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789633860076
9782821815209
9781283248426
9786613248428