The Wasted Generation
The Wasted Generation

Author: Silviu Brucan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-08-15

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1000306984

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My generation in Eastern Europe was caught in the middle of two revolutions (1944 and 1989), which instead of moving history ahead pushed it backward. We thus at first made a U-turn-a tortuous one, to be sure-from underdeveloped capitalism to underdeveloped socialism, but because socialism and underdevelopment are strange bedfellows,we have since discovered we were on the wrong path and are trying now to return to where we started. The drama of that generation is what this book is about.

Stalinism for All Seasons
Stalinism for All Seasons

Author: Vladimir Tismaneanu

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2003-10-15

Total Pages: 412

ISBN-13: 0520237471

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This history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) traces its origins as a tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s, to its years in national power from 1944 to 1989, and to the post-1989 metamorphoses.

Revolutionary Breakthroughs and National Development
Revolutionary Breakthroughs and National Development

Author: Ken Jowitt

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2021-05-28

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0520369513

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1971.

Romania under Communism
Romania under Communism

Author: Dennis Deletant

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1351781898

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Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romania’s last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, offers a symbolic standpoint from which to penetrate that shadow and to throw light upon the entire period of Communist rule in the country. An appropriate point of departure is the observation that Romania’s trajectory as a Communist state within the Soviet bloc was unlike that of any other. That trajectory has its origins in the social structures, attitudes and policies in the pre-Communist period. The course of that trajectory is the subject of this inquiry.

Romania Under Communist Rule
Romania Under Communist Rule

Author: Dennis Deletant

Publisher:

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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This book is the first synthesis of the history of communism in Romania, from the founding of the Romanian Communist Party in 1921 to the revolution that led to the downfall of Communist dictator Nicolae Ceaucescu in December 1989. This book is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the development of communism in Romania and the impact of four decades of communist rule on Romanian society. Romania Under Communist Rule is divided into three parts. The first presents the period of Soviet domination and the consolidation of the Communist regime in Romania during the period from 1947 to 1955. The second discusses the Romanian Communist Party's efforts at autonomy in the period from 1956 to 1969, including the withdrawal of Soviet troops form Romania in 1958, and the coming to power of Nicolae Ceaucescu after the death of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej in 1965. The third and final section of the book analyzes the neo-Stalinist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaucescu, culminating in the overthrow of the communist regime in Romania as a result of the December 1989 revolution. The author, Dennis Deletant, is a leading specialist on Romanian history and culture. Professor of Romanian studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at the University of London, he is recognized as the leading authority on Romanian history in Great Britain.

Jewish Foreign Trade Officials on Trial
Jewish Foreign Trade Officials on Trial

Author: Veronica Rozenberg

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9781793652843

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"This book describes a series of six staged economic trials conducted by the Romanian state against Jewish key officials between 1960-1964. Rozenberg places these trials in the context of the Romanian State's overall treatment of Jews and the strengthening of Gheorghiu-Dej's policy of national communism"--

Ceauşescu
Ceauşescu

Author: Pavel Câmpeanu

Publisher:

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13:

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Pavel Campeanu was a cellmate in the political prison of Jilava of the man who was to become Romania's leader - Nicolae Ceausescu. Here he blends personal recollections with analysis to describe historical events from the perspective of an insider.