Elements for the History of the Romanian Peasant’s Sociological Profile: A Parallel between the Interwar and the Communist Periods
Elements for the History of the Romanian Peasant’s Sociological Profile: A Parallel between the Interwar and the Communist Periods

Summary/Abstract: Since the modern era, one of the significant processes of Romanian history has been the ebb and flow of peasants between village and town. During the interwar period, the “ideal type” of the Romanian peasant was established, studied by the Bucharest Sociological School, founded by Dimitrie Gusti (1880–1955), and presented in the contemporary literature. The communist regime installed in Romania after World War II forced the peasants to give up their “peasantness,” proletarianizing them and compelling to settle en masse in the cities to provide the labor needed for the country’s forcible industrialization. It was in this context that the collectivized peasant and the peasant-worker appeared, with their differences from the interwar “ideal type.”

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