Citi oameni a omorit comunismul? Si cine erau ei?
How many people did communism kill? And who were they?

Summary/Abstract: The statistics of democide is a relatively new research field in Romania. The appearance of the volume entitled: The book of the dead from prisons, detention camps and deportations, led by writer and civic militant Romulus Rusan, represents a remarkable contribution towards clarifying some of the obscure parts of communist democide. The book puts together the researches done by the lead author and his collaborators throughout the last five years and a series of texts investigated in the last two decades, from which some of the chapters have represented the basis of previous books, making thus possible for readers to experience a more broad approach of the repressive communist regime from our country. The book of the dead is an event-book, which deserves more than a summary. And a „summary" of the lists of individual deaths would be nonsense. It would lead to the statistical reductionism and the anomization that the researchers have tried to avoid. It is necessary to put it into context (national/international) and to analyze what happened in the last quarter of a century, the time passed since we are allowed to speak publicly about our near and bloody past, which a lot of people prefer to ignore in silence

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