Dialogic Collectivization: “Rich Peasants” and Unreliable Cadres in the Romanian Countryside, 1948-1959

The relationship between peasants and the state has long been a central topic in analyzing agrarian societies, such as Romania’s in the first half of the 20th century.i Important elements in this relation include the balance of political forces in the state (understood as a collection of groupings having potentially different agendas); the state’s [...]