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

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Authors JULIANNA BODÓ – B.A. in philology (1979), currently Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Research Fellow at the Center for Regional and Anthropological Research, and reader at the Sapientia University, both located in Miercurea Ciuc. Specializing in inter-ethnic relations, political anthropology, the history of the public and private societal spheres, and the institutional structure of the Hungarian community in Romania. Publications: “Hát ezek kezdtek sokan lenni… Magyar-cigány kapcsolatok Korondon ,” (together with Bíró A. Zoltán), in Szimbolikus térfoglalás és etnikai identitásépítés [Symbolic occupation of space and ethnic identity-building] (2001); “Lokális identitás és interetnikus kapcsolatok összefüggéseiről egy esettanulm ány kapcsán,” Kisebbségkutatás 2002, 2; “Egy asszimilációs kísérlet kudarca”, Antropológiai Műhely (2000–2001), 48–68; “ Átjárási technikák a szocializmusban a társadalom privát és hivatalos szférája között (1–2.),” Antropológiai Műhely, 1 (1997) 9, 31–48 and 2 (1997) 10, 35–52; “Economic Elite in the Székely Country— 1993 (Summary of a Descriptive Report),” Review of Sociology 1 (1995), 143–155 (with A. Z. Bíró, J. Gagyi, S. Oláh, and E. Túrós). Editor of Fényes tegnapunk. Tanulmányok a szocializmus korszakáról (Miercurea-Ciuc: Pro-Print, 1998). LIVIU CHELCEA – B.A. in sociology, University of Bucharest, M.A. in history, Central European University, Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Specializing in economic anthropology, kin relations and urban history. Publications: România profundă în comunism (Bucharest: Nemira, 2000 (co-written with Daniel Lătea); co-editor of Economia informală în Rom ânia după 1989 (Bucharest: Paideia, 2004) (together with Oana Mateescu). DORIN DOBRINCU – Ph.D. in history, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iaşi. Research Fellow, Department of Contemporary History, “A. D. Xenopol Institute of History,” Iaşi. Associate Professor, Department of History, Alexandru I. Cuza University, Iaşi; General Director of the National Archives of the Romania (since 2007). Areas of specialization: history of Romania, particularly the Second World War, the Holocaust, the Communist period (with a focus on the Soviet occupation, the beginnings of the Communist regime, armed resistance to Communism, the collectivization of agriculture, the Gulag, post-war Romanian exiles), the memory of fascism and Communism; church-state relations, religious nationalism, the Communist repression of the Church, and the history of minority religious groups. Co-editor of: Raportul Final al Comisiei Prezidenţiale pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România (Bucharest: Monitorul Oficial, 2006; second and revised edition, Bucharest: Editura Humanitas, 2007) (together with Vladimir Tismăneanu and Cristian Vasile); Ţărănimea şi puterea. Procesul de colectivizare a agriculturii în România (1949–1962) (Iaşi: Polirom, 2005) (together with Constantin Iordachi ); Editor of: Proba Infernului. Personalul de cult în sistemul carceral din România potrivit documentelor Securităţii, 1959–1962 (Bucharest: Scriptorium, 2004). Author of 14 book chapters in edited volumes; 62 articles and studies in academic journals, and of numerous articles and book reviews in cultural magazines and dailies. CĂLIN GOINA – born in Sântana, Arad county, the village he presents in his contribution to this volume. B.A. in sociology, University of Timişoara (1995), M.A. in political science, CEU Budapest, currently Ph.D. candidate in sociology, UCLA. He is working on a dissertation project on cooperative structures in the agriculture of Romania during the communist and post-communist periods. CONSTANTIN IORDACHI – Associate Professor, Department of History, and co-director of Pasts, Inc. Center for Historical Studies, Central European University , Budapest. Associate editor of the journal EAST CENTRAL EUROPE/ L’EUROPE DU CENTRE-EST. Eine wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift. His research focuses on social history, comparative approaches to historical research, totalitarianism and mass politics (with a focus on fascism and communism); nationalism , citizenship and minorities in modern Central and Southeastern Europe. Publications: Charisma, Politics and Violence: The Legion of the “ Archangel Michael ” in Interwar Romania (Trondheim: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004); Citizenship, Nation and State-Building: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878–1913, Carl Back Papers in Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 2002, no. 1607. Contributions to: Noble Fascists? European Aristocracies and the Radical Right (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), ed. by K. Urbach; and What is a Nation? Europe, 17891914 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), edited by T. Baycroft and M. Hewitson . Editor of: Comparative Fascist...