Beschreibung
The book offers a comparative perspective regarding the
communist transformation of the countryside within “Soviet
Bloc” countries, mainly focusing on organization and
political practices within the rural areas, land reforms and
collectivization of agriculture, social change and rural
mentality, political instruments of the communist regimes
for transforming the village: between coercion and
resistance; communist propaganda and agitation in the rural
world; cultural propaganda and representations of the
countryside in the official discourse in the “Eastern
Bloc”.
Sorin Radu is Professor habil. at the
“Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu (Romania), dean of the
Faculty of Social and Human Science and head of the Research
Centre of Patrimony and Socio-Cultural History.
Cosmin Budeanca is expert at The Institute for the
Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the
Romanian Exile, Bucharest, Romania.
