Transforming Peasants, Property and Power

Download or read book Transforming Peasants, Property and Power written by Dorin Dobrincu and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a project initiated and coordinated by Gail Kligman and Katherine Verdery, research for this volume was conducted by a group of twenty anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and literary critics from Romania, United States, and Great Britain. Employing interdisciplinary methods and using a wealth of previously unexplored archival and oral sources, the authors managed to produce the most solid monograph to date on the process of collectivization in Romania. Book jacket.