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    STUDIA HISTORIA - Issue no. 2 / 2015  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEWS: DRAGOŞ SDROBIŞ, THE LIMITS OF MERITOCRACY IN AN AGRARIAN SOCIETY. INTELLECTUAL UNEMPLOYMENT AND POLITICAL RADICALIZATION OF THE YOUTH IN INTERWAR ROMANIA, POLIROM, IAŞI, 2015.

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  Abstract:  The book hereby reviewed, quite significantly titled The Limits of Meritocracy in an Agrarian Society. Intellectual Unemployment and Political Radicalization of the Youth in Interwar Romania (Polirom, 2015), is an attempt at reconstructing, in an interdisciplinary manner, particular elements of Romania’s social and political life between 1918 and the dawn of the Second World War, more specifically the interaction between youth, intellectuals, government, the university system and society as a whole. Naturally, the approach of a theme so complex requires the use of a significant amount of sources, in this case consisting mainly of archival material, relevant books and publications that appeared throughout the studied period and a large number of carefully selected secondary works. The end result is a compelling book, owing a lot to some of the most important ideas previously enounced in the field of study it belongs to, but at the same time taking those ideas further, adding to them and applying them to proper case studies.  
         
     
         
         
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