Showing Peasants under Siege: The Collectivization of Romanian Agriculture, 1949-1962 by Gail Kligman

Peasants Under Siege Provides a comprehensive look at the social engineering process that ensued. This title examines how collectivization assaulted the 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". Full description