Kligman and verdery draw on decades of ethnographic fieldwork in romania as well as on research conducted by a team of scholars in the early 2000s using archive we use cookies to enhance your experience on our websiteby continuing to use our website you are agreeing to our use of cookies. In 1949 romanias fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country following the soviet modelpeasants under siegeprovides the first comprehensive look at the far reaching social engineering process that ensued gail kligman and katherine verdery examine how . In 1949 romanias fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country following the soviet model peasants under siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far reaching social engineering process that ensued gail kligman and katherine verdery examine how . The collectivization of agriculture in romania took place in the early years of the communist regimethe initiative sought to bring about a thorough transformation in the property regime and organization of labour in agriculture according to some authors such as us anthropologist david kideckel agricultural collectivization was a response to the objective circumstances in postwar romania . In 1949 romanias fledgling communist regime unleashed a radical and brutal campaign to collectivize agriculture in this largely agrarian country following the soviet model peasants under siege provides the first comprehensive look at the far reaching social engineering process that ensued gail kligman and katherine verdery examine how collectivization assaulted the very foundations of