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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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Multiple |
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Central European University Press
2010.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (230 pages). |
ISBN: | 9789633860076 |