Balkan Village Contributor(s): Sanders, Irwin T. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813154278 ISBN-13: 9780813154275 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $28.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Eastern Europe - General - History | Social History - History | Russia & The Former Soviet Union |
Dewey: 949.773 |
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" (1.07 lbs) 332 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Balkan - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In the Balkans today Communism, with its dynamic drive for power and sense of mission, is charging against the Balkan peasant mass, a patient, religious, tradition-bound people tilling their beloved soil. Dragalevtsy, the Balkan village described by Mr. Sanders, brings this struggle into focus. The book details the way of life of a tranquil rural folk clinging to a Bulgarian mountainside, in the shadow of a twelfth- century monastery -- their history, economic system, marriage customs, family life, and reluctant yielding to the ways of the western world. On September 6, 1944, Dragalevtsy peasants awoke to find posters in the streets proclaiming the advent of Communism. The concluding chapters of the book give a vital, personalized insight into the economic and social forces now at work in the Balkans. |