1st Edition
A Tale of Two Villages Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
By Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Copyright 2010
230 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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,... Read more
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
Biography
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance.
