Țăranii în opera lui Nicolae Bălcescu
Peasants in Bălcescu's Work

Summary/Abstract: This article tries to catch the manner of structuring the image of the Romanian peasant in the work of one of the most important Romanian revolutionaries in 1848: Nicolae Bălcescu. The final purpose of this type of research is highlighting the relation between national identity and a sort of a peasant ideology. Nicolae Bălcescu is both revolutionary and historian.Together with Mihail Kogălniceanu he is the most representative romantic historian that would deal especially with the military history, but also the agrarian history in Romanian Principalities. This latter concern is directly connected with the failed trial of solving the rural question in Romanian Country in 1848 through landgiving to peasants. Even if failed, this first institutionalized trial would open the way for the debates in the following decades and will decisively contribute to solving the rural question in 1864.

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