Balkan village /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington :
University of Kentucky Press,
1949
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 peasa. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (329 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9780813164236 0813164230 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 3, 2015). |
