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Stephane Courtois, Dicţionarul comunismului
Stephane Courtois, The Dictionary of communism

Author(s): Iulia Barbu
Subject(s): History
Published by: Editura Cetatea de Scaun
Keywords: review; dictionary; communism; multidisciplinary

Summary/Abstract: The book gathers contributions of a team of researchers who have benefited from the declassification of some parts of the ex-communist states archives. The diversity of their scientific expertise ensures the approach of communism not only from a historical perspective. The coordinator, Stephane Courtois, is an expert in this field and keeps a closed contact with the ex-communist countries. He acts in Romania as a rector of Sighet School and he also deals with the problems of the Romanian scientific research in the field of communist. As a result of his and his team research, several dimensions of communism were investigated: the political, economical, cultural and social dimension.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 115-116
  • Page Count: 2
  • Language: English