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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Multiple
Publicado: Central European University Press 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 (230 pages).
ISBN:9789633860076