Full Description
This volume focuses on how the national elites in Central and South-Eastern Europe perceived the peasantry during the process of building the modern state and democratic political systems. The central theme of the discussion is the integration of peasants into the political system, with the aim of transforming them from the dependent subjects of various public figures to active citizens. The politicization of the rural world, in terms of increasing peasants' participation in public affairs and their identification with ideas concerning the "common good," was integral to the modern transformation of societies in these regions. The studies in this volume examine the relationship between the peasantry and central and local state institutions, such as the administration, schools and the army; associations of all kinds; and social figures, including intellectuals, teachers, local notables and priests, who sought to uplift the rural world as part of the modernization agenda.
Contents
Introduction. Subjects or Citizens: How Peasants Became Citizens and Integrated into Nation-States in Central and South-Eastern Europe - Sorin Radu, Ovidiu Buruian., Andrei Florin Sora
Rural Economy and Agrarian Modernization. Peasants as Industrial Workers in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia: The Pathway to Modernization and Urbanization - Jelena Rafailovi.
Peasants into Farmers and Citizens: Economic and Political Tensions after the Interwar Agrarian Reforms in Greater Romania - Dietmar Müller
The Price of Modernity: The Policies of the Polish and Soviet States toward Peasants (1918-1939-1941) - Marek Wierzbicki
Agrarian Reform, Agronomic Innovation, and State Intervention in Interwar Greece - George Gassias
Peasantry, Nation-Building, and Cultural Integration. Peasants and State-Building in Romania: The Dialectics of War, Rebellion and Land Reform - Claudiu Cr.ciun
Peasantry and the Building of the Romanian Nation in Inter-imperial Context - Valer Cosma
The Print Media of German Settlers in the late Russian Empire: Between Traditions, Adaptation, and Integration in the Age of High Industrialization - Lilija Wedel
Schooling and Extracurricular Activity in Romania (1900-1940): Primary Education as Agent of Transformation in the Rural World - Ovidiu Buruian.
Political Integration and Rural Power Structures. The Parliamentary Representation of Constituencies Inhabited by Nationalities in Dualist-Era Hungary: An Examination Through Statistical Data - József Pap
Romanian Candidates and Rural Voters in Eastern Hungary, the Banat and Transylvania (1880s to 1918) - Ovidiu Iudean, Vlad Popovici
Between Rural Roots and Political Power: The Case of the Members of Parliament with Rural Background in Interwar Transylvania - Daniela Mârza
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