Communism and Condominium: the Communist State and the Freedom Regime in the Traditional Romanian Villages Cover Image

Communism and Condominium: the Communist State and the Freedom Regime in the Traditional Romanian Villages
Communism and Condominium: the Communist State and the Freedom Regime in the Traditional Romanian Villages

Author(s): Cristinel Trandafir
Subject(s): Political history, History of Communism
Published by: Editura Universitaria Craiova
Keywords: communism; condominium; devălmaș property; freedom; traditional Romanian village;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to clarify why in the Romanian history, the communist state has proved to be the most unsuited and incompatible institution with the mechanism of the Culture of Commune to Diffuse Tradition (Cultura Obștei de Tradiție Difuză), specific to the Romanian agrarian communities; furthermore, the article investigates why the communist state and the free rural communities (sate devalmase) were in structural and functional contradiction, impossible to be removed both theoretical and practically.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 47
  • Page Range: 216-226
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English