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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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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Tale of Two Villages
• Subtitle: Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside
• Author: Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 230
• EAN: 9789639776784
• ISBN: 9639776785
• ID: 05062028
• Publisher: Central European University Press
• Weight: 464 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 162 × 19 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. May 2010

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