The volume discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. Thus, it addresses one of the key questions of the new political system in post-imperial East Central and Southeast Europe. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective (capital province, urban political elites rural voters) to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies with a special interest in the predominantly ethnic Romanian population.
Introduction |
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Chapter One "Peasant Democracy" or What It Was Like to Practice Politics in Countryside Romania between the Two World Wars |
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Chapter Two Communal Political Cultures in Interwar Romania |
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Chapter Three Mayors and Local Elite in the Interwar Period: Case Study -- The Bordei Verde Commune, Braila County |
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Chapter Four The National Liberal Party and the Failure of Political Integration of the Rural World in the Interwar Romania |
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Chapter Five What was the National Peasant Party? Internal Division and Organizational Conflict, 1900--1947 |
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Chapter Six The Bessarabians "between" the Russians and the Romanians: The Case of the Peasant Party Deputy Vladimir V. Tiganko (1917--1919) |
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Chapter Seven Orthodox Priests on the Necessity of Building a Political Culture in Interwar Transylvania |
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Chapter Eight A Socio-Professional Analysis of the Candidates in General Elections (1926--1937): Case Study -- Agriculturalist Candidates on the Lists of the Assembly of Deputies |
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Chapter Nine The Road of Transylvanian Romanian Fanners to Greater Romania's Political Arena |
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Chapter Ten The Reorganization of the Romanian National Party in Rural Areas of Lower Alba County prior to Parliamentary Elections in 1919 |
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Chapter Eleven At the Edge of the Political World: Interwar Election Campaigns in Rural Bihor |
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Chapter Twelve Suspicious beyond Imagination: Constructs of Ethnicity and the Rural World in Interwar Transylvania |
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Chapter Thirteen The Cooperation between the Hungarian Party and the Hungarian Peasantry in Romania: Election Campaigns in Rural Areas and Hungarian Peasantry Involvement in the Interwar Elections |
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Chapter Fourteen Considerations on the German Peasants of Romania in the First Decade of the Interwar Period |
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Chapter Fifteen The Nazification of the Rural Transylvanian Saxon Press: Case Study --"Landwirtschaftliche Blatter" (1935--1941) |
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Chapter Sixteen Policy Options of the Bulgarians of Bessarabia during 1918--1940 |
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Contributors |
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Sorin Radu is Professor of Romanian History at "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania, where he is also the Dean of the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. He is also the Head of the Research Centre of Heritage and Socio-Cultural History. Oliver Jens Schmitt is Professor of Southeast European History at the University of Vienna, Austria. He is also a full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.