Traditional Romanian Village Communities

Introduction. The international framework of the problem and its Romanian aspects: 1. The international framework of the problem; 2. Hypotheses concerning the genesis of the Romanian feudal states; Part I. The internal life of two types of contemporary village communities: 'non-genealogical' and 'genealogical': 3. The free communities of the 'archaic' type; 4. Free evolved communities; 5. The former serf villages; Part II. The village communities of the peasants liable to corvée (eighteenth and nineteenth centuries): 6. The communities of corvée peasants; 7. The economic life of the corvée villages; Part III. The first forms of tributary exploitation of the village communities: 8. Prior considerations on the problem of the feudal conquest of the villages; 9. First forms of the seizure of the village communities; 10. The conquest of the village communities by the boyar class; 11. The great social crisis of serfdom; 12. First sings of the failure of serfdom; Conclusions. Some theoretical considerations.