A Tale of Two Villages Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside |
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| Author:
| Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina |
| Editor:
| Parta, R. Eugene |
| ISBN: | 978-963-9776-78-4 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 2010 |
| Publisher: | Open Society Institute
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
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Book Description:
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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 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.
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.