BOOK REVIEW: "Peasants and Politics in Interwar Romania. Perceptions, Mentalities, Propaganda”, Edited by Sorin Radu and Oliver Schmitt, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017

Abstract

The following volume focuses on the complexity of the interwar period of Greater Romania, a country suddenly born after the closure of the First World War. The volume and its vast selection of authors emphasize in decrypting a very sensitive yet crucial topic in order to understand the evolutionary process of the political life in the realm of peasants the vast majority of Romania’s population obviously consisting of them. A significant proportion of the population in a country that has always and always will have a significant amount of peasants and agricultural traditions. Therefore their political impact is unquestionable.

The volume “Peasants and Politics in Interwar Romania” challenges itself to present a much nuanced reality in the political life of an everyday peasant during the interwar period. It strives to achieve this feat in sixteen very eye opening chapters which all shed light to a different aspect of everyday political life from the viewpoint of an everyday peasant’s life in interwar period Greater Romania, a period of great anomalies for almost all of the newly founded European States post the Versailles treaties.