Urbanization and social homogenization: the role of territorial systematization during The Golden Age Cover Image

Urbanizare și omogenizare socială: funcțiile sistematizării teritoriale în EPOCA DE AUR
Urbanization and social homogenization: the role of territorial systematization during The Golden Age

Author(s): Emanuel COPILAȘ
Subject(s): Rural and urban sociology, History of Communism
Published by: Editura Institutul European
Keywords: party; state; cities; villages; development;

Summary/Abstract: In Ceaușescu’s Romania, territorial systematization was used as a gigantic political, economic and social tool in order to create the ‘multilaterally developed socialist society’. The regime seemed to be homogenous and function in a unilateral ideological way. However, the national-communist edifice was full of contradictions. The most important of them that between party and state, reverberated at all levels of activity and systematization surely represented one of the most important fields in which party-state contradictions could expand. They did so, as I try to argue in the present article, in favor of the state rather than the party, although the party used the state as an administrative instrument in order to achieve its developmental goals.

  • Issue Year: IV/2016
  • Issue No: 13
  • Page Range: 151-165
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Romanian
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