Tale of Two Villages, a: Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside |
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| Author:
| Mungiu-Pippidi, Alina |
| ISBN: | 978-1-283-24842-6 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | Central European University Press
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| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $90.00 |
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 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.
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.