| Tale of Two Villages: Coerced Modernization in the East European Countryside Subjects: Collective farms -- Romania -- History -- 20th century; Farmers -- Romania -- History -- 20th century; Romania -- Rural conditions; Romania -- Social conditions -- 1945–1989; 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. Mungiu-Pippidi Alina : Alina Mungiu-Pippidi is Professor of Democracy Studies at the Hertie School in Berlin. Her research centres on anti-corruption policy and good governance. |