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A Tale of Two Villages
Title:
A Tale of Two Villages
Author:
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
ISBN:
9789633860076

9789639776784
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Publication Information:
Central European University Press 2010
Abstract:
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...
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