Download or read book Romania After Tyranny written by Daniel N Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Romanians were beginning to recognize that the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, contrary to what his first five or six years in power seemed to imply, would bring no respite from communism. Instead, after a 1971 "mini cultural revolution" ended hope for a Bucharest "spring" and intellectual latitude was curtailed further in 1972-73, the ominous possibilities of Ceausescu were becoming evident. In 1973, I went to Romania on a dissertation research grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board. It was a year in which wide-ranging survey research was still possible. But it was also a time when historians and writers who had different ideas, or workers who gave thought to non-party union organization, felt the heavy hand of Ceausescu's Securitate. As happens to most graduate students and their field research, it was a formative experience with indelible impressions that remain today.
Download or read book Romania After Ceau escu written by Tom Gallagher and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Depicts the rocky transition of Romania since 1989. Examines how nationalism has been used to deflect critical attention from economic mismanagement and human rights abuses.
Download or read book The Fall of Tyrants written by Laszlo Tokes and published by Good News Pub. This book was released on 1991 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hungarian Reformed Church pastor Laszlo Tokes defied the Romanian officials, he knew his days were numbered, for no one survived the censure of the Great Conducator, Nicolae Ceausescu. But events were to prove him wrong, as the Romanian revolution Tokes fostered began to gather speed, culminating in the execution of Ceausescu and his wife in late 1990.
Download or read book Revolution democratic transition and disillusionment written by Anca Pusca and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-30 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the transition from communism to capitalism. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that transition and democratisation studies should turn their attention towards processes of illusion formation and disillusionment as key to understanding the shift from one ideological framework to another. The author provides alternative approaches to otherwise classical sites of examination of social change – such as revolutions and the emergence of civil society – and proposes a number of new possible sites by analysing the politics of self-reflection, the element of shock inherent in any transition and the role of visual narratives in negotiating change. The chapters are inspired by unique interviews and discussions with the leaders of the Timisoara Revolution, the Group of Social Dialogue – the first civil society organisation in post-communist Romania, the leading author of the 'Presidential Report Analysing the Communist Dictatorship in Romania' and an innovative group of photographers tracing the Romanian transition through images.
Download or read book Romania Since 1989 written by Henry F. Carey and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive study of Romanian politics ever published abroad, this volume represents an effort to collect and analyze data on the complex problems of Romania's journey from sultanistic national communism to a yet-unreached democratic government.
Download or read book Romania Since the Second World War written by Florin Abraham and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under the sign of three dictatorships (1938-1944) -- Part I. Communism -- The establishment of the communist regime (1944-1947) -- The Gheorghiu-Dej era (1948-1965) -- The Nicolae Ceausescu regime (1965-1989) -- Institutions of "legitimate violence"--Society crushed by tyranny -- The economy -- The fall of communism -- Part II. Return to democracy; lost in transitions -- Political parties -- Political institutions -- Main public policies -- Foreign policy and Euro-Atlantic integration -- The rule of law -- Society under the pressure of change -- The economy -- Part III. Social and demographic trends -- Social and demographic trends -- Conclusions
Download or read book Modern Romania written by Tom Gallagher and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005-06 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1989 fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, Romania, arguably the most regimented of states in the Soviet bloc, has struggled with the transition from totalitarian state to democratic nation. In this insightful examination of modern Romania, Tom Gallagher provides an overview of Romania’s unique political and social history, focusing on both its national identity as well as the legacy of Soviet rule. Gallagher provides an in-depth look at Romania since 1989, focusing on the government’s attempts at economic reform, engagement with democracy, problems with corruption among the ruling elite, as well as the weakness of civil society and the resilience of implacable expressions of nationalism. Ultimately, Gallagher argues that thus far democracy has essentially failed in Romania. In fact, he warns that Romania is on its way to becoming one of the most unequal states in Europe and quite possibly a future trouble-spot unless efforts to resume much-needed reforms are undertaken.
Download or read book Theft of a Nation written by Tom Gallagher and published by C. Hurst & Co. Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Gallagher's analysis of the largest country in the Balkans focuses upon its efforts to transform its image. At the same time many of the key legacies of the Ceausescu regime remain intact. The success of NATO expansion and European enlargement depend upon the outcomes of necessary reforms in Romania.
Download or read book Romania Under the Tyranny of Small Figures written by Ilie Șerbănescu and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ilie Serbanescu, a distinguished economist, launches a comprehensive study of the contemporary Romanian economy and its problems. He critically evaluates Romanian transition and the main issues facing the stability of the Romanian economy, and then proposes solutions to be undertaken by the Romanian government.
Download or read book The Re education Experiment in Romania written by Gheorghe Boldur-Latescu and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little is known--not only by the Western world but also by the Romanian youth--about the magnitude of the horrors the communist regime in Romania committed over its 40 years of dictatorship. This book is a collection of essays written between 1995 and 2011, chronicling the experiences and presenting the views of a former political prisoner about past and current events in Romanian history. A retired professor of operations research, Boldur-Latescu is one of the few survivors of the 'Pitesti Phenomenon', the experiment launched in the 1950's in communist prisons by the Romanian Securitate, which aimed at re-educating political prisoners through peer exerted torture. This book is a continuation of the analysis that started with "The Communist Genocide in Romania", published in 2005 by Nova Publishers) with a particular emphasis on the examination of the social, political, cultural, and economic evolution of Romania after the 1989 Revolution. Some of the essays go beyond the analysis of the Romanian context by tackling current challenges faced by Western democracies through a unique prism. The link between communism and terrorism, the lack of reference to Christian values in the EU Constitution, and the relevance of Tolstoy's work or the Testament left by Peter the Great to the current situation in world politics, are only a few examples of the author's unique interpretation of current world events.
Download or read book Romania After the Great War written by and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Balkans After the Cold War written by Tom Gallagher and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses the crisis faced by the Balkan states at the end of the Cold War, the turbulent events that followed and Western policy towards the region.
Download or read book Communism on the March written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romania s New Theater written by Liviu Maliţa and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Only Yesterday written by Fedora Cohn Horowitz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-30 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author recounts her Jewish childhood growing up in Romania during the harrowing historic events that transpired from 1941 through1958.
Download or read book Nationalism and Identity in Romania written by Radu Cinpoes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe produced a fundamental change in the political map of Europe. In Romania, nationalism re-emerged forcefully and continued to rally political support against the context of a long and difficult transition to democracy. Extreme right-wing party The Greater Romania Party gained particular strength as a major political power, and its persuasive appeal rested on a reiteration of nationalism and identity - and themes such as origins, historical continuity, leadership, morality and religion - that had been embedded in Romanian ideological discourse by earlier nationalist formations. Radu Cinpoes here examines the reasons for the strength and resilience of nationalism in Romania, from the formation of the state to its accession in the EU.
Download or read book From Eastern Bloc to European Union written by Günther Heydemann and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 25 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, European integration remains a work in progress, especially in those Eastern European nations most dramatically reshaped by democratization and economic liberalization. This volume assembles detailed, empirically grounded studies of eleven states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and the former East Germany—that went on to join the European Union. Each chapter analyzes the political, economic, and social transformations that have taken place in these nations, using a comparative approach to identify structural similarities and assess outcomes relative to one another as well as the rest of the EU.
