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A Tale of Two Villages. Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside

  • A non-fiction book about the social engineering operated in rural Eastern Europe by the Communist regime, based on the history of two villages in Romania. One of the two villages is the birthplace of Nicolae Ceausescu, the former Communist dictator, Scornicesti, which received massive investment during communist years and was turned into a mixture of underdeveloped village and industrial town. The other is Nucsoara, the Carpathian cradle of peasants' resistance against Communism, where half the village was executed or imprisoned and their lands divided between the other half. The state intervention failed in both villages to attain the planned objectives, but it nevertheless changed fundamentally the life of villagers. This book is mostly about the consequences of unlimited state power over people and communities.

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Document Type:Book
Language:English
Author(s):Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
Publisher:Central European University Press
Place of Publisher:Budapest
Publication year:2010
Number pages:232
ISBN:978-963-9776-78-4
Release Date:2015/11/06
Tag:Romania, development, state intervention
Hertie School Research:European Research Centre for Anti-Corruption and State-Building (ERCAS) | Centre
Licence of document (German):Veröffentlichungsvertrag für Publikationen ohne Print on Demand
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