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To advance the analysis, I have made the methodological choice of comparing and contrasting the development of Agrarian politics in Romania with that of Poland. It concentrates upon issues of agency, representation and mobilization and proposes an explanation (which archival material that may surface in the future will, I believe, corroborate) as to why the relationship between the social group and their political representatives broke down and what implications this had for the success of the party. Drawing upon two new archival holdings which provide unprecedented, albeit limited, insights into the internal workings of PNŢ, the thesis emphasizes the role of PNŢ as a political institution and of its organization structures and seeks to account for the party’s failure to undergo any structural reform. It looks into the development of grass roots politics and the interaction of the local-level (village) politics with elite/national politics in a society undergoing rapid socio-economic transformation. To this purpose, the thesis uses an interdisciplinary methodology drawing upon political science and sociology. While not seeking to present a counterfactual narrative, the thesis provides a more nuanced analysis of Romanian politics as well as a contextualization of it within Eastern European Agrarian politics. This thesis concentrates on the Romanian case and argues that in fact the post-1944 period represents the culmination of longer-term political, social and economic processes, all of which severely hampered the ability of PNŢ to oppose the Communists. Traditional historiography and political science on Romania, and Eastern Europe in general, look upon the period at the end of the Second World War as a break with ‘normal politics’. As such it seeks to explain the implications of socio-economic changes within rural society upon the political effectiveness of the Romanian National Peasant Party (PNŢ) and covers an important blind spot in English- and Romanian-language historiography, which concentrates almost exclusively on high-level politics. The present thesis examines the relationship between the Romanian peasantry as a social group and their political representatives in the period between 19.

Program posta romana iulius mall timisoara