332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

332 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 2006. Western Europe preoccupied with the problems of international relations, industry, and the future of armaments, is sometimes in danger of overlooking the fact that more than half the entire population of that Continent is composed of peasants. The immense territories of this hundred million of cultivators (outside the frontiers of the U.S.S.R.), whose bent backs till the... Read more
I. THE ‘OTHER HALF OF EUROPE’ II. AUSTRIA: GATEWAY TO THE PEASANT LANDS III. THE KINGDOM OF SERBS, CROATS AND SLOVENES IV. CROATIA’S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE V. THE NEW BULGARIA EMERGES VI. BULGARIA TO-DAY VII. BULGARIAN INTERLUDE VIII. WILL ‘GREATER RUMANIA’ ACHIEVE GREATNESS? IX. BESSARABIA: A STUDY IN DECAY X. BUKOVINA-AND ITS PEOPLES XI. A PEASANT SPEAKS XII. HUNGARY: A NATION WITH A GRIEVANCE XIII. POLAND AND ITS PEASANTS XIV. A NAT; ON NOBODY KNOWS XV. THE UKRAINIANS LIVE ON XVI. CZECHOSLOVAKIA: A SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENT XVII. THE WORLD DEPRESSION AND THE PEASANT XVIII. THE PEASANTS LOOK AT THE FUTURE

Biography

H. Hessell Tiltman