History as Ballast, LII. Looking back in anger… Cover Image

Istoria ca un balast, LII. Privind înapoi cu mânie...
History as Ballast, LII. Looking back in anger…

Author(s): Radu Ciuceanu
Subject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of Communism
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Romania; communism; penitentiary; reeducation; Radu Ciuceanu;

Summary/Abstract: The following text is a protest sent to the Board of the National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives regarding the public discussion that emerged after the declarations of two researchers of CNSAS questioning the responsibility of the penitentiary administration, and respectively the Communist authorities, in the horrid process of reeducation through torture. Radu Ciuceanu is an Honorable Member of the Romanian Academy, director of the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, former political prisoner, and a survivor of the reeducation process that took place during 1949-1952 in several Communist prisons in Romania

  • Issue Year: XXVII/2019
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 5-8
  • Page Count: 4
  • Language: Romanian