A Tale of Two Villages

• Main Author: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Central European University Press 2010
• Subjects: Anthropology; modernization; peasant; Romania; social conflict; city; commune; urbanization; agriculture; rural political culture; rural migration; elite; collectivization; land reform; property; land; Southeastern Europe; social conditions; rural property; village; Securitate (Ceauşescu's political police); rural residence
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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 t...