
A Tale of Two Villages
Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi(Author)
Central European University Press
Published on 10. May 2010
Book
Hardback
230 pages
978-963-9776-78-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Budapest
Hungary
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Academic
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Paper over boards
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
490 gr
ISBN-13
978-963-9776-78-4 (9789639776784)
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Person
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance.
Content
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, Appendice,s Index