Traditional Romanian Village Communities: The Transition from the Communal to the Capitalist Mode of Production in the Danube Region

by Henri Stahl, Daniel Chirot (Translator), Holley Coulter Chirot (Translator)

Professor Henri Stahl is one of Eastern Europe's leading authorities on peasant societies. For over thirty years he has studied peasant village communities in Romania, both in the field and from wide-ranging documentary sources. This book, one of Professor Stahl's major works, is based on this extensive research. The book is a study of the evolution of Romanian peasant society from the thirteenth century to the present, focusing particularly on the village communities of Wallachia and Moldavia, in which until quite recently communal villages still existed. Through a comparison of this type of village firstly with villages whose population was subjected to serfdom, and secondly with those which were free, but with private rather than communal property. Professor Stahl offers an interpretation of Romanian agrarian history. He argues that Romania moved from a communal form of social organization to a kind of tardy feudalism, provoked by the entry of capitalist market forces.

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Istoric, jurnalist, biograf, scriitor de SF.

Tatăl scriitoarei Henriette Yvonne Stahl si al scriitorului Henri H. Stahl.

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