Transforming Peasants, Property and Power: The Collectivization of Agriculture in Romania, 1949–1962

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A ACNSAS, see National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives Adamclisi, 112, 118 Adventists during the collectivization campaign, 276 see also neo-Protestants Agerpress (Romanian News Agency), 103 Agrarian Commission of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers’ Party [Comisia Agrară a Comitetului Central al Partidului Muncitoresc Român], 27, 32, 33, 35, 41n agrarian problem, 109, 320 agrarian reform, 84, 85, 349 of 1921, 95n, 254, 282, 332, 333 of 1945, 6, 86, 87, 89, 95, 143, 145, 151, 152, 167, 374, 376, 377, 378, 393, 485 Agrarian Section of the Central Committee of the Romanian Workers’ Party [Secţia Agrară a Comitetului Central al Partidului Muncitoresc Român], 34, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 44, 205, 206, 208, 325, 326, 487 agricultural debts, and collectivization, 28–29, 51, 65, 118, 258, 261, 406–409 agricultural land, 60, 90, 93, 253, 382, 460, 468 agricultural production, 51, 65, 87, 165, 171, 370, 377, 378, 387, 455 Agricultural Production Cooperatives, 18n, 81, 88, 89, 91, 252, 501 agricultural proletariat, 1, 18, 110, 174–175, 308 Aiud, x, 13, 204, 205, 206, 208, 209, 210, 213, 214, 215, 217, 224, 225 Aiudul de Sus, 210 Alaska, 120 Albania, features of the socialist agricultural system of, 461, 468 patterns of collectivization in, 456, 458, 460 Alba, 146, 203, 222–227. Albu, Ioan, 206 Alexe, Eugen, 57 Allied Control Commission [Comisia Aliată de Control], 144 Althabe, Gérard, 7 “Americans are coming,” 31 and popular messianic beliefs, 294, 386 hopes of, 281 Andrăşeşti, 416 Anti-communist resistance (armed) and collectivization , 131, 166, 183, 194(fnt. 6), 199(fnt. 91), 282 Apoldu, x, 267, 273 Apostol, Gheorghe, 58, 78, 445 Arad, 486, 487, 494, 508 Archives of the Romanian Intelligence Service [Arhivele Serviciului Român de Informaţii], 8 Ardeal, see Transylvania Argeş, 71, 72, 73, 401, 488, 491 Asânip, 205 Atia, 356 Aurel Vlaicu, aviator, 310, 326 village, x, 15, 309, 310, 325, 326, 327, 492 Austria–Hungary, 253, 268 Avram Iancu, 377, 392, 393, 394 Avram, Andrei, 214, 215 Avram, Ioan, 216, 217 Avram, Iulian, 215, 216 Avrămeşti, 236, 242 Index Transforming Peasants, Property and Power 516 Ceanul Mare, 212 Ceauşescu, Nicolae, role in collectivization; role in repression, 4, 5, 6, 8, 32, 56, 57, 59, 62, 64, 70, 71, 76, 78, 132, 133, 180, 199, 251, 267, 329, 400, 415, 421, 423, 424, 430, 433, 437, 438, 439, 445, 461 census, 1910, 213 1927, 159 1930, 142, 144, 276, 372 1941, 143 1947, 144 1948, 310, 425 1952, 144 1956, 104, 230, 242, 260, 261, 276 2002, 356 Center for Renting Agricultural Equipment [Centrul de Închiriere a Maşinilor], 377 center-periphery relations, 106 Central Commission of Revision [Comisia Centrală de revizie], 217 Central Committee for the Agrarian Reform [Comitetul Central pentru Reforma Agrară], 145, 149 Central Committee, Romanian Communist Party [Comitetul Central, Partidul Comunist Român], 485, 501 Central Committee, Romanian Workers’ Party [Comitetul Central, Partidul Muncitoresc Român], 465, 486, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491 centralization, 463, 464 Cernatul de Jos, 29, 486 Cernavodă, 133 Cernea, Mihail, 6, 450 Chelcea, Liviu, x, xiin, 16, 17, 18, 23, 391n, 445, 507, 509 Cherechi, 372 chiaburi, and abuses, 113, 173, 174, 363, 403 and class struggle, 1, 124, 125, 126, 152, 308, 309, 317, 321, 385, 411, 418 and exploitation by, 37, 113, 172, 173, 174, 218, 256, 257, 312, 322, 490 and legislation, 39 and repression, 13, 14, 37, 40, 54, 70, 149, 152, 154, 233, 242, 259, 465 attitudes of, toward collectivization , 152, 243 criteria of classification, 65, 124, 125, 126, 219, 308, 490 declassification of, 15, 23, 45, 308, 309, 313, 321, 322, 323, 325 ethnic origins of, 321 see also dechiaburization children, and collectivization, xiin, 29, 67, 68, 72, 120, 121, 345, 373, 374, 375, 386, 387, 388, 401, 411, 412, 441 and political repression, 333, 334 and their school enrolment , 54, 62, 64, 237, 281, 287, 291, 294, 295, 386, 387, 388, 391, 411, 418, 436, 440 of chiaburi, 31, 125, 168, 170, 185, 219, 226, 256, 257, 258, 259, 264, 277, 404, 405, 419, 429 China, 7 Chiorean, Victor, 216 Chiriţă, Pârvu, 124, 431 Chirtoacă, Pavel, 27 Chiş, Ioan, 58 Chişinevschi, Iosif, 56, 59, 62, 68 Chişinevschi, Liuba, 103, 115 Ciochina, 413 Cistei, 205 Ciuguzel, 208, 223 Ciulniţa, 117 class enemies,150, 152, 155, 209, 220, 299, 317, 434, 503 clientelist networks, see patron-client relations Cluj (city), 45, 64, 177, 208, 222n...