TY - GEN AU - Alina Mungiu-Pippidi TI - A Tale of Two Villages SN - 9789633860076 PY - 2010/// PB - Central European University Press KW - modernization KW - peasant KW - Romania KW - social conflict KW - city KW - commune KW - urbanization KW - agriculture KW - rural political culture KW - rural migration KW - elite KW - collectivization KW - land reform KW - property KW - land KW - Southeastern Europe KW - social conditions KW - rural property KW - village KW - Securitate (Ceauşescu’s political police) KW - rural residence N1 - Open Access N2 - 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 Ceauşescu’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. ""One of Romania’s foremost s UR - http://books.openedition.org/ceup/2446 UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/60475 ER -