TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kligman,Gail
AU  - Verdery,Katherine
TI  - Peasants under siege: the collectivization of Romanian agriculture, 1949-1962 
SN  - 9781400840434 (electronic bk.)
AV  - HD1492.R8 K55 2011eb
U1  - 338.1/849809045 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Collectivization of agriculture
KW  - Romania
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Agriculture and state
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1944-1989
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - Business
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Industries
KW  - Agribusiness
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING
KW  - Sustainable Agriculture
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [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
N2  - 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
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