Peasants under siege: the collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962
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Main Author: Kligman, Gail (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 2011
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-497) and index
Laying the groundwork -- The Soviet blueprint -- The village community and the politics of collectivization, 1945-62 -- Creating party cadres -- Pedagogies of power : technologies of rural transformation -- Pedagogies of knowledge production and contestation -- Pedagogies of persuasion -- Fomenting class war -- Outcomes -- The collectives are formed -- The restratification and bureaucratization of rural life -- Conclusion -- Appendix I. Project and participants -- Appendix II. Methodology -- Appendix III. List of interviewers and respondents
In 1949, Romania's fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country, following the Soviet model. Peasants under Siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far-reaching social engineering process that ensued. Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery examine how collectivization assaulted the very foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare" yet saturat
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xix, 508 pages)
ISBN:9781400840434
1400840430
9780691149721
0691149720
9780691149738
0691149739

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