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16 février 2013
- handle: 10670/1.h03c02
- isbn: 9789639776784
- eisbn: 9789633860076
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Southeastern Europe Romania social conditions rural property land reform rural political culture rural migration rural residence social conflict agriculture collectivization modernization urbanization elite peasant land property village commune city Securitate (Ceauşescu’s political police) History HIS010010 HBJDSujets proches
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Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, « Chapter 3. The Construction and Deconstruction of Rural Property », Central European University Press, ID : 10670/1.h03c02
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Peasant land tenure in historical perspective Rural societies have no memory. Seasons of their life are very much alike, and peasants do not indulge in record-keeping: only the propertied classes do. Consequently, no-one in Nucşoara or in Scorniceşti can look back beyond their grandparents’ generation, and when they do the resulting picture is rather blurred. The oral history of Romanian peasantry thus starts with the aftermath of the agrarian reforms of World War I. These were the most compr...