Mihai Croitor, Regimul comunist şi „transformarea“ lumii rurale (1949-1962)
The communist regime and the „transformation” of the rural world (1949-1962)
The study observes the brutal techniques used by the communist regime in order to destroy the former organization of the Romanian village and to replace it with the new socialist reality. Given the statistic predominance of the rural population in the newly declared Romanian Popular Republic, the new „regime of popular democracy” makes use of all imaginable coercitive measures in order to install the rural collectivization according with the Sovietic model, thus destroying not only hundreds of thousands of rural households, but the very individuality of the Romanian peasant, such as it had developed during a multisecular history.
Keywords: contemporary Romanian history, communist totalitarianism, collectivization, socialist transformation of agriculture, deportation.
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