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.
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