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The Call to Freedom. Forms of Dissent in Romania during the 1970s and the 1980s. Forms of Dissent in Romania during the 1970s and the 1980s
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The Call to Freedom. Forms of Dissent in Romania during the 1970s and the 1980s. Forms of Dissent in Romania during the 1970s and the 1980s

Vocaţia libertăţii. Forme de disidenţă în România anilor 1970-1980. Forme de disidenţă în România anilor 1970-1980

Author(s): Ana-Maria Cătănuş / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Dissent; Opposition; Human rights; Romania; Repression; Securitate; Political police;

From the mid-1960's dissent developed steadily in the Soviet Union and after the signing of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act also in the countries of Eastern Europe. However, this did not happen in Romania, where dissent remained only a constellation of personal histories. Why did this happen? We tried to address this by giving answers to a series of questions: what was dissent? who were the Romanian dissidents and how did they act? Which were the elements to encourage or, on the contrary, to block the development of dissent in Romania? Trying to solve this puzzle, we organized our book as a series of sequences. The first sequence conceptualizes dissent, by placing it in a geographical, political and temporal space. The second sequence presents the most representative acts of dissent in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in order to find the roots of this new form of opposition and to examine its dimension in different communist societies. The third sequence is devoted to Romanian dissent. Drawing from sociology we built a typology of dissent from a social and professional perspective. Therefore, we identified four types of dissent: religious, scientific, literary and ethnic. For each of these types we offerred an account of the main features of the domain in the 1970's and the 1980's and we analyzed dissent within the specific field. In addition, under the name of „party dissent” we analyzed some of the few stands against Nicolae Ceauşescu. This book presents also thorough case studies for the most important Romanian dissidents: Paul Goma, Vlad Georgescu, Father Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, Mihai Botez, Doina Cornea, and Dorin Tudoran. Finally, we thought it was important to bring forward the two factors that influenced the development and dissemination of dissent in Romania: the Secret Police (Securitatea) and Radio Free Europe. Dissent was mainly ethical. The public critique of the communist regime, denouncing its evils and abuses, was only part of the dissident activity. What proved to be more important was the fact that dissidents concentrated on building alternative ways of living under the communist rule. It was truth, honesty, competence, and respect for a different opinion that stood at the basis of their endeavor. Dissent did not overthrow the communist regime by itself. However, it planted the seeds for a free and healthier society in the post 1989 era.Volume awarded with the "Nicolae Bălcescu" Prize of the Romanian Academy, 2016.From the mid-1960's, dissent developed steadily in the Soviet Union. After the signing of the 1975 Helsinki Final Act, it flourished in the countries of East-Central Europe. However, dissent was very scarce in Romania. Why was Romania different? We tried to address this question by giving answers to a series of other questions: what was dissent? Who were the Romanian dissidents and how did they act? Which were the elements to encourage or, on the contrary, to block the development of dissent in Romania? Trying to solve this puzzle, we organised our book as a series of sequences. The first sequence conceptualises dissent, by placing it in a geographical, political and temporal space. The second sequence presents the most representative acts of dissent in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in order to find the roots of this new form of opposition and to examine its dimension in different communist societies. The third sequence is devoted to Romanian dissent. Drawing from sociology we built a typology of dissent from a social and professional perspective. Therefore, we identified four types of dissent: religious, scientific, literary and ethnic. For each of these types, we offered an account of the main features of the domain in the 1970's and the 1980's and we analysed dissent within the specific field. In addition, designated as „dissent within the Party” we analysed some of the few stances that several Communist Party leaders took against Nicolae Ceauşescu. This volume also draws thorough case studies for some of the most important Romanian dissidents: the writer Paul Goma, the historian Vlad Georgescu, Father Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa, the mathematician and futurologist Mihai Botez, the professor Doina Cornea, and the poet Dorin Tudoran. Finally, we thought it was important to bring forward the two factors that influenced the development and dissemination of dissent in Romania: the Secret Police (Securitatea) and Radio Free Europe. Dissent was mainly ethical. The public critique of the communist regime, denouncing its evils and abuses, was only part of the dissident activity. What proved to be more important was the fact that dissidents concentrated on building alternative ways of living under the communist rule. It was truth, honesty, competence, and respect for a different opinion that stood on the basis of their endeavour. The dissent in itself did not overthrow the communist regime. However, it planted the seeds for a free and healthier society in the post-1989 era.

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Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Communist Period. The Romanian Institute for the Cultural Relations Abroad – An Unknown History
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Propaganda and Cultural Diplomacy in the Communist Period. The Romanian Institute for the Cultural Relations Abroad – An Unknown History

Propagandă şi diplomaţie culturală în perioada comunistă. Institutul Român pentru Relaţiile Culturale cu Străinătatea - o istorie inedită

Author(s): Carmen Stratone / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Political Sciences; History; Social Sciences; Cultural Diplomacy; Romania; Romanian Communism; Communism

This volume fits into the large field of cultural history, but addresses a new theme: cultural propaganda abroad. It is the first monographic investigation on an institution – The Romanian Institute for the Cultural Relations Abroad (IRRCS, in Romanian) – to which the communist authorities assigned the special role of promoting Romanian cultural values abroad, officially accepted at that time. The task undertaken by the author, in the form of research for a doctoral thesis, was much more difficult than others of the same nature, since, in addition to the political-ideological documents identified in the funds from the Central Committee archive of the Romanian Communist Party hosted by the National Archives of Romania, she had to insist long to receive access to the IRRCS Archive, which is under the administration of the Romanian Cultural Institute, the patrimonial heir of the former institution. Even not organized for research, this archive had in its composition the documents of a technical-administrative nature of the IRRCS, without which the work of the institution could not be fully understood. Established in 1948, with the main purpose of popularizing abroad the “cultural, economic and social achievements” of the communist regime, IRRCS has a history that closely follows the stages of evolution of the political regime, from the incessant Stalinism of the period of “Popular Democracy”, to the opening to the West in the 1960ʼs-1970ʼs, to finally pass through external isolation, followed by the collapse of the late 1980ʼs. But beyond the political-ideological framework in which he had to evolve and which is abundantly emphasized in the book, IRRCS also had his own life, more or less autonomous. The personalities who were involved in the projects carried out through the Institute (writers, dramatic artists, painters, sculptors, musicians, etc.) used the opportunity offered by the regime to visit other countries, to get to know and exchange ideas with personalities of world culture, but also for their works, through translations, exhibitions, artistic performances, to reach the public in either capitalist or “brotherly” countries. The Romanian public also benefited, as long as most of the projects were agreed on a reciprocal basis. This is an invitation to understand the complicated mechanism of foreign cultural propaganda from the communist period. Through the transformations to which it was subjected over the years, by the type of personalities appointed at the head of the institution, through the theme promoted and through the evolution of the budget and the number of employees, the evolution of the IRRCS is also a small-scale history of the communist period in Romania.

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Romania 1945-1989: Encyclopedia of the Communist Regime. Resistance, Opposition, Dissent. Biographical Dictionary
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Romania 1945-1989: Encyclopedia of the Communist Regime. Resistance, Opposition, Dissent. Biographical Dictionary

România 1945-1989: Enciclopedia regimului comunist - rezistenţă, opoziţie, disidenţă. Dicţionar biografic

Author(s): Flori Bălănescu / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Resistance; Opposition; Romania; Dissent; Biography

The biographical dictionary brings together the biographies of people involved in armed resistance actions or who formed opposition or dissent nuclei to the communist regime in Romania. Through the microbiographies and „life stories" it proposes, the volume is an attempt to present the credible picture of an entire historical period, short on the scale of history, but so consistent from the perspective of ideological content. The „painting” is presented to the reader from close to close, like a puzzle, so that at the end it opens a broad perspective that offers various interpretive directions - ideological, political, social, cultural, economic, religious, anthropological - on the repression practiced by the Romanian communist regime. Among the biographies you will find personalities such as: Acterian Arșavir, Aldea Aurel, Anania Bartolomeu, Andreescu Gabriel, Antohi Sorin, Antonesei Liviu, Argetoianu Constantin, Arnăuțoiu Toma, Arnăuțoiu Petre, Babeș Liviu Corneliu, Balotă Nicolae, Batzaria Nicolae, Benvenisti Mișu, Bergel Hans, Bernard Noel, Botez Mihai, Brătianu Constantin I.C., Caraion Ion, Cioran Emil, Ciuceanu Radu, Coposu Corneliu, Cornea Doina Maria, Crainic Nichifor.in this volumein this volume

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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume I
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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume I

Confesiunile elitei comuniste. România 1944-1965: Rivalităţi, represiuni, crime… Arhiva Alexandru Şiperco, Volumul I

Author(s): Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Elite; Confession; Interview; Oral History

Starting with the ’70s until the revolution of December 1989, Alexandru Siperco conducted several hundred unofficial interviews, totaling thousands of pages, with 350 members and sympathizers from illegality of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) – among them many former members of the Communist nomenklatura or of the repression apparatus during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime – but also with representatives of former historical parties, including Corneliu Coposu, Ioan Hudita and Camil Demetrescu. No one, neither in Romania nor in the rest of the states of the former communist bloc, has initiated and even less has managed to achieve such an approach that concerns the uncosmitized history of communism. For Alexandru Siperco, the determinant was his desire to know as much as possible of the period between April 4, 1944, and the moment of March 19, 1965, the death of Gheorghiu-Dej. From the interviews given to Alexandru Siperco are not missing events such as: the act of august 23; actions for the conquest of power; liquidation of the political opposition; the struggle for power in the RCP and its consequences; collectivization and monetary reform; the role of Soviet advisers; the activity of repressive bodies; the regime in communist prisons; relations with Moscow leaders; the Rajk, Slansk and Kostov trials; foreign policy; blackmail, betrayals, assassinations; friends and rivals. There are also memories of illegals regarding the period of political detention, the Civil War in Spain, the French Resistance and the political emigration to the U.S.S.R. The testimonies present in this volume: Gheorghe Adorian, Petra Afanasiade, Milo Andreescu, Emilian Angheliu, Gheorghe Apostol, Melita Apostol, Ion Ardeleanu, Dumitru Baciu, Colonel Balaci, Eugen Bantea, Mircea Balanescu, Bernard Bereanu, Florica Bodnaras, Manole Bodnaras, Cristina Boico, Traian Borcescu, Bordea, Harry Brauner and Lena Constante, Sergiu Bratescu, Iosif Breban, Silviu Brucan, Jean Bruker, Zamfir brumaru, Valeriu Bucicov, Simion Bughici, Avram Bunaciu, Mihai Burca, Francisc Butyka.

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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume II
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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume II

Confesiunile elitei comuniste. România 1944-1965: Rivalităţi, represiuni, crime… Arhiva Alexandru Şiperco, Volumul II

Author(s): Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Elite; Confession; Interview; Oral History

Starting with the ’70s until the revolution of December 1989, Alexandru Siperco conducted several hundred unofficial interviews, totaling thousands of pages, with 350 members and sympathizers from illegality of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) – among them many former members of the Communist nomenklatura or of the repression apparatus during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime – but also with representatives of former historical parties, including Corneliu Coposu, Ioan Hudita and Camil Demetrescu. No one, neither in Romania nor in the rest of the states of the former communist bloc, has initiated and even less has managed to achieve such an approach that concerns the uncosmitized history of communism. For Alexandru Siperco, the determinant was his desire to know as much as possible of the period between April 4, 1944, and the moment of March 19, 1965, the death of Gheorghiu-Dej. From the interviews given to Alexandru Siperco are not missing events such as: the act of august 23; actions for the conquest of power; liquidation of the political opposition; the struggle for power in the RCP and its consequences; collectivization and monetary reform; the role of Soviet advisers; the activity of repressive bodies; the regime in communist prisons; relations with Moscow leaders; the Rajk, Slansk and Kostov trials; foreign policy; blackmail, betrayals, assassinations; friends and rivals. There are also memories of illegals regarding the period of political detention, the Civil War in Spain, the French Resistance and the political emigration to the U.S.S.R. The testimonies present in this volume: Iacov Calica, Vera Călin, Liuba Chişinevschi, Ion Ciulei, Jean Coler, Miron Constantinescu, Ion Crişan, Alexandru Demeter, Dobrescu, Marin Dragnea, Alexandru Drăghici, Martha Drăghici, Mişu Dulgheru, Aurel Duma, Ianoş Fazekaş, Ida Felix, Mihai Florescu, Beate Fredanov, Elvira Gaisinschi, Teohari Georgescu.

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Exit from the circle. The Foreign Policy of the Georghiu-Dej Regime
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Exit from the circle. The Foreign Policy of the Georghiu-Dej Regime

Ieșirea din cerc. Politica externă a regimului Georghiu-Dej

Author(s): Mioara Anton / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Gheorghiu-Dej Regime; Foreign Policy; International Relations; Romania

Mioara Anton, who has already stood out as one of the most authoritative representatives of the "new wave" of Romanian historiography, assumed the task, not easy, of providing an assessment of the Romanian-Soviet relations in the first two post-war decades through the prism of mutations produced from the model vassal stage to that of rebel ally. The work is both the result of the critic takeover and the integration of known historical sources and of the studies and works on the topic addressed directly, but also of their own and substantial research in the archives. The result was materialized in a synthesis work, by dimensions, but which excels by the number and quality of the original sources and by the originality of its structure and the accents put in the analysis. The author does not propose a work on the whole of the Romanian-Soviet relations, premature, given the current state of knowledge of sources and the stage of special research, but an incursion into the evolution of the relations between the political regimes in Romania and the Soviet Union through the prism of the perception and reaction of the communist leaders in Bucharest – first of all, Gheorghiu-Dej – towards the directives of the Kremlin. Mioara Anton thus offers both specialists and a wide circle of researchers the opportunity to know the essential segment of the Romanian-Soviet relations, as well as the necessary guide for the correct deciphering of the struggle for power control within the communist regime in Romania. Among the topics covered: Romania and the Soviet-Yugoslav schism; Khrushchev's secret report, withdrawal of Soviet troops, disputes with the Soviet Union in CAER, Khrushchev's visit to Romania in 1962, Romania's opening to the West, April 1964 declaration.

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A hot summer in Romanian-Soviet relations. The Moscow talks of July 1964
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A hot summer in Romanian-Soviet relations. The Moscow talks of July 1964

O vară fierbinte în relațiile româno-sovietice. Convorbirile de la Moscova din iulie 1964

Author(s): Vasile Buga / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Gheorghiu-Dej Regime; Foreign Policy; International Relations; Romania; Romanian-Soviet Relations; Soviet Union

This volume includes the transcript of the conversations held in Moscow between 7-14 July 1964 between the delegation of the Romanian Workers Party (RWP), led by Ion Gheorghe Maurer, member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the RWP, president of the Council of Ministers of the Romanian people's Republic, and the delegation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), led by Nikolai V. Podgorny, member of the C.C. Presidium, and the transcript of the discussion held on the occasion of the reception of the Romanian delegation by Nikita S. Khrushchev, First Secretary of the C.C. of the CPSU, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR. The author's interventions in the text were minimal, being dictated by the need to comply with the current spelling rules. The editor included in the volume the letters that preceded the organization of the visit of the Romanian delegation to Moscow, as well as the note of problems on the agenda of the Romanian-Soviet relations that the RWP delegation wanted to address in talks with the Soviet side.

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Romanian Communists and the "Right-Wing Deviation". History of a Party Business, 1940-1968
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Romanian Communists and the "Right-Wing Deviation". History of a Party Business, 1940-1968

Comuniștii români și „devierea de dreapta”. Istoria unei afaceri de partid, 1940-1968

Author(s): Dan Cătănuş / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Gheorghiu-Dej Regime; Romania; Romanian Communist Party; stalinism; right-wing deviation; rivalry; power

The volume analyzes the origin, evolution and consequences of this controversial episode of the history of Romanian communism: "the right-wing deviation". In 1952, Gheorghiu-Dej accused his main opponents - Ana Pauker, Vasile Luca and Teohari Georgescu – of "right-wing deviation" and removed them from the party leadership. The whole affair was carried out with the direct involvement of Stalin, from its debut to the final decision. The reprisals that followed were not limited only to the three "deviators", but also encompassed, in ever wider circles, their relatives, friends, more or less close collaborators, reaching even vast social segments considered to have been protected by the former leaders. The unmasking of the "right-wing deviation" in the Romanian Workers Party in 1952 was only the end of a deeper business that was rooted deep in the past. The story is fascinating, because, following the thread of rivalry that has been created since the period of illegality between the future protagonists of the struggle for pre-eminence in the party, we discover personal stories, controversial episodes of the communist movement before and after august 23, 1944. The second leading thread, permanently present, is that of the relationship with Moscow, in its double hypostasis: of direct involvement, through indications masked in tips and suggestions, but also by transforming the Soviet factor into a book that the Romanian communist leaders each tried to play as best they could.

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The Time of Trials. The Romanian-Soviet Relations, 1930-1940
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The Time of Trials. The Romanian-Soviet Relations, 1930-1940

Vremea încercărilor. Relațiile româno-sovietice, 1930-1940

Author(s): Alexandru-Murad Mironov / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Romania-Soviet relations; Romania; interwar Romania; interwar history; international relations; foreign policy; Bessarabia; Soviet Union

The book deals with some particularly important aspects of Romania's international relations in the interwar period, a problem centered on the years of the fourth decade, subject to research before and after 1989. From the beginning, the author insists extensively on what were the general features of the Romanian-Soviet relations, starting from the ideas and beliefs in the perspective of normal and civilized relations, which were found plenary in the conference of 1930, under the beautiful and expressive title "peace dynamics", and which testified to an evolutionary vision in the future and the hope of peace and understanding between nations, unfortunately countered by the actions of the Kremlin and then by those of Berlin. As for the general features of the Romanian-Soviet relations, they stood under the sign of Russian intransigence in the Bessarabia issue, tense, contorted, contradictory, with flows and ebbs, with blackmail and threats, until the resumption of diplomatic relations in June 1934. The author deals extensively with the origins of the Bessarabia problem, focusing on the circumstances, conditions and immediate actions of the historical event, as well as portraying the framework and how the initiation of the Romanian-Soviet negotiations was reached. The book is a contribution to the fuller, more documented, more correct and more objective knowledge of a distinct period in the contemporary history of Romania, being built on an excellent, rich information, in which the archival document is in a privileged position.

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The Bessarabia Question in Romanian-Soviet Talks During the Cold War, 1945-1989
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The Bessarabia Question in Romanian-Soviet Talks During the Cold War, 1945-1989

Problema Basarabiei în discuțiile româno-sovietice din timpul Războiului Rece, 1945-1989

Author(s): Ion Constantin / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Romania-Soviet relations; Romania; Cold War; international relations; foreign policy; Bessarabia

Ion Constantin is well-known for his studies devoted to this subject, his book, „Bessarabia under the Soviet occupation: from Stalin to Gorbachev”, enjoying an excellent reception from specialists and not only. Deepening the research by using new archival documents, the author analyzes the evolution of the Bessarabia question in the Romanian-Soviet discussions during the Cold War (1946-1989). As the author suggests, this was one of the most important problems discussed by the Romanian and Soviet officials.

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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume III
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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume III

Confesiunile elitei comuniste. România 1944-1965: Rivalităţi, represiuni, crime… Arhiva Alexandru Şiperco, Volumul III

Author(s): Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Elite; Confession; Interview; Oral History

Starting with the ’70s until the revolution of December 1989, Alexandru Siperco conducted several hundred unofficial interviews, totaling thousands of pages, with 350 members and sympathizers from illegality of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) – among them many former members of the Communist nomenklatura or of the repression apparatus during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime – but also with representatives of former historical parties, including Corneliu Coposu, Ioan Hudita and Camil Demetrescu. No one, neither in Romania nor in the rest of the states of the former communist bloc, has initiated and even less has managed to achieve such an approach that concerns the uncosmitized history of communism. For Alexandru Siperco, the determinant was his desire to know as much as possible of the period between April 4, 1944, and the moment of March 19, 1965, the death of Gheorghiu-Dej. From the interviews given to Alexandru Siperco are not missing events such as: the act of august 23; actions for the conquest of power; liquidation of the political opposition; the struggle for power in the RCP and its consequences; collectivization and monetary reform; the role of Soviet advisers; the activity of repressive bodies; the regime in communist prisons; relations with Moscow leaders; the Rajk, Slansk and Kostov trials; foreign policy; blackmail, betrayals, assassinations; friends and rivals. There are also memories of illegals regarding the period of political detention, the Civil War in Spain, the French Resistance and the political emigration to the U.S.S.R. The testimonies present in this volume: Ladislau Ady, Ronea Gheorghiu, Piotr Goncearuc, Solomon Graur, Octavian Groza, Charlotta Gruia, Nicolae Guina, Alexandru Iacob, Mircea Ioanid, Leon Petre Iosif, Dumitru Ivanovici, Thea Kaplan, Lev Kotlear, Corneliu Leu, Mihail Levente, Aurel Lieblich, Petre Lupu, Manole H. Manole, Ofelia Manole, Vladimir Mazuru, Corneliu Manescu, Radu Manescu, Beno Meirovici, Ilca Melinescu, Eduard Mezincescu, David Mihail, Vasile Modoran, Nicolae Moraru.

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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume IV
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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume IV

Confesiunile elitei comuniste. România 1944-1965: Rivalităţi, represiuni, crime… Arhiva Alexandru Şiperco, Volumul IV

Author(s): Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Elite; Confession; Interview; Oral History

Starting with the ’70s until the revolution of December 1989, Alexandru Siperco conducted several hundred unofficial interviews, totaling thousands of pages, with 350 members and sympathizers from illegality of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) – among them many former members of the Communist nomenklatura or of the repression apparatus during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime – but also with representatives of former historical parties, including Corneliu Coposu, Ioan Hudita and Camil Demetrescu. No one, neither in Romania nor in the rest of the states of the former communist bloc, has initiated and even less has managed to achieve such an approach that concerns the uncosmitized history of communism. For Alexandru Siperco, the determinant was his desire to know as much as possible of the period between April 4, 1944, and the moment of March 19, 1965, the death of Gheorghiu-Dej. From the interviews given to Alexandru Siperco are not missing events such as: the act of august 23; actions for the conquest of power; liquidation of the political opposition; the struggle for power in the RCP and its consequences; collectivization and monetary reform; the role of Soviet advisers; the activity of repressive bodies; the regime in communist prisons; relations with Moscow leaders; the Rajk, Slansk and Kostov trials; foreign policy; blackmail, betrayals, assassinations; friends and rivals. There are also memories of illegals regarding the period of political detention, the Civil War in Spain, the French Resistance and the political emigration to the U.S.S.R. The testimonies present in this volume: Adriana Moscuna, Sanda Movila, Aurel Munteanu, Nicolae Munteanu, Nicolae Gurgu Munteanu, Ana Naum, Petre Navodaru, Andrei Neagu, Vasile Negrea, Serghei Nicolau, Alexandru Nicolschi, Iuliu Orban, Petre Pandrea, Tatiana Pauker, Gheorghe Bratescu, Andrei Pacuraru, Andrei Patrascu.

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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume V
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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume V

Confesiunile elitei comuniste. România 1944-1965: Rivalităţi, represiuni, crime… Arhiva Alexandru Şiperco, Volumul V

Author(s): Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Elite; Confession; Interview; Oral History

Starting with the ’70s until the revolution of December 1989, Alexandru Siperco conducted several hundred unofficial interviews, totaling thousands of pages, with 350 members and sympathizers from illegality of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) – among them many former members of the Communist nomenklatura or of the repression apparatus during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime – but also with representatives of former historical parties, including Corneliu Coposu, Ioan Hudita and Camil Demetrescu. No one, neither in Romania nor in the rest of the states of the former communist bloc, has initiated and even less has managed to achieve such an approach that concerns the uncosmitized history of communism. For Alexandru Siperco, the determinant was his desire to know as much as possible of the period between April 4, 1944, and the moment of March 19, 1965, the death of Gheorghiu-Dej. From the interviews given to Alexandru Siperco are not missing events such as: the act of august 23; actions for the conquest of power; liquidation of the political opposition; the struggle for power in the RCP and its consequences; collectivization and monetary reform; the role of Soviet advisers; the activity of repressive bodies; the regime in communist prisons; relations with Moscow leaders; the Rajk, Slansk and Kostov trials; foreign policy; blackmail, betrayals, assassinations; friends and rivals. There are also memories of illegals regarding the period of political detention, the Civil War in Spain, the French Resistance and the political emigration to the U.S.S.R. The testimonies present in this volume: Elena Patrascanu, Constantin Parvulescu, Mihai Popescu, Tudor Radu Popescu, Ion Popescu-Puturi, Vasile Posteuca, Constantin Predulea, Sanda Ranghet, Anton Ratiu, Grigore Ion Raceanu, Nicolae (Nicu) Radescu, Dan Rautu, Leonte Rautu, Andrei (Bandi) Roman, Valter Roman, Eugen Runcan, Victoria Sarbu, Tudor Sepeanu.

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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume VI
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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders… Alexander Siperco Archive, Volume VI

Confesiunile elitei comuniste. România 1944-1965: Rivalităţi, represiuni, crime… Arhiva Alexandru Şiperco, Volumul VI

Author(s): Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Elite; Confession; Interview; Oral History

Starting with the ’70s until the revolution of December 1989, Alexandru Siperco conducted several hundred unofficial interviews, totaling thousands of pages, with 350 members and sympathizers from illegality of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) – among them many former members of the Communist nomenklatura or of the repression apparatus during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime – but also with representatives of former historical parties, including Corneliu Coposu, Ioan Hudita and Camil Demetrescu. No one, neither in Romania nor in the rest of the states of the former communist bloc, has initiated and even less has managed to achieve such an approach that concerns the uncosmitized history of communism. For Alexandru Siperco, the determinant was his desire to know as much as possible of the period between April 4, 1944, and the moment of March 19, 1965, the death of Gheorghiu-Dej. From the interviews given to Alexandru Siperco are not missing events such as: the act of august 23; actions for the conquest of power; liquidation of the political opposition; the struggle for power in the RCP and its consequences; collectivization and monetary reform; the role of Soviet advisers; the activity of repressive bodies; the regime in communist prisons; relations with Moscow leaders; the Rajk, Slansk and Kostov trials; foreign policy; blackmail, betrayals, assassinations; friends and rivals. There are also memories of illegals regarding the period of political detention, the Civil War in Spain, the French Resistance and the political emigration to the U.S.S.R. The testimonies present in this volume: Tanase Evghenie, Paul Sfetcu, Abram Silberstein, Silvestru, Vasile Spiridon, Alexandru Stanuta, Gheorghe Stoica, Nicolae Stoica, Ion Stroescu, Stroia, Sara Suhaia, Eugen Szabó, Alexandru Szmuk, Serbu, Ion Soltutiu, Mircea Stefanovici, Pascu Stefanescu, Anton Tatu Jianu, Corneliu Tarnoveanu.

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Southern Dobruja. Cominternist Ideology and Bulgarian Irredentism, 1919-1940
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Southern Dobruja. Cominternist Ideology and Bulgarian Irredentism, 1919-1940

Cadrilaterul. Ideologie cominternistă şi iredentism bulgar, 1919-1940

Author(s): Dan Cătănuş / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Interwar Romania; irredentism; Bulgaria; Dobrudja; communism

The volume is the result of a research theme initiated in 1999 within the N.I.S.T. and which focused on the situation of the Cadrilater (Southern Dobruja) in the interwar period from the perspective of the interference of communist-type activities in the Balkans, carried under cominternist tutelage and of Bulgarian irredentism. Several research directions were pursued: the activity of the Internal Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation ( V.D.R.O.); the activity of the Dobrujan Revolutionary Organisation (D.R.O.), a communist-type organization, detached from the V.D.R.O. in 1925 and who acted mainly in the Southern Dobruja under the guidance, at least theoretically, of the Romanian Communist Party (R.C.P.) and the Comintern; the attitude of the R.C.P. towards the national problem, with emphasis on the situation of Southern Dobruja, as well as the activity of the regional R.C.P. in Dobruja; the involvement of the Communist International in the Balkans and its relationship with the R.C.P. and the U.S.S.R.'s attitude in this regard. The presented documents outline both Bulgarian and Romanian theses on Dobruja and especially its southern part, the reader having the necessary elements for forming his own opinion.

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Sunset of An Empire. USSR in the Gorbachev Era, 1985-1991
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Sunset of An Empire. USSR in the Gorbachev Era, 1985-1991

Apusul unui imperiu. URSS în epoca Gorbaciov, 1985-1991

Author(s): Vasile Buga / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: USSR; communism; Soviet Union; Gorbachev

The present volume, based mostly on the works published in recent years in the Russian Federation, less or not known to the Romanian reader, tries to capture, as far as possible, the main moments that marked the political, economic and social developments in the former Soviet Union from the moment of Gorbachev's election as head of the CPSU CC (March 11, 1985), until the moment of collapse (December 25, 1991).

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Between Beijing and Moscow. Romania and the Soviet-Chinese conflict, vol. I (1957-1965)
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Between Beijing and Moscow. Romania and the Soviet-Chinese conflict, vol. I (1957-1965)

Între Beijing și Moscova. România și conflictul sovieto-chinez, vol. I (1957-1965)

Author(s): Dan Cătănuş / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Sino-Soviet relations; Contemporary History; communism; history of Romania; history of China; history of the USSR

The present volume aims to highlight, through some documents from the archive of the Central Committee of Romanian Communist Party - which we consider essential -, the evolution of communist Romania from an unconditional alignment with Moscow's decisions to a policy on its own. In this evolution, the emergence of major divergences between China and the USSR provided the favorable historical context for the Romanian communists, who knew how to skillfully use the conflict between the two major parties of the communist world, in order to make its own voice heard.

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Power and Society. The Communist Bloc Under the Impact of Destalinization, 1956
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Power and Society. The Communist Bloc Under the Impact of Destalinization, 1956

Putere şi societate. Lagărul comunist sub impactul destalinizării, 1956

Author(s): Vasile Buga,Dan Cătănuş / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; socialist bloc; 1956; Hungarian Revolution; society; Contemporary History; History of Romania

Through its events, the year 1956 established itself as a turning point in the history of world communism. The ideological innovations brought by Nikita Khrushchev at the XXth Congress of Communist Party of Soviet Union and especially the presentation of the "secret" report on Stalinist crimes influenced, to a considerable extent, the short, medium and long-term evolution of the parties members of the international communist movement and of the regimes of Popular Democracy grouped in the communist bloc. The coordinators of this volume have proposed to make available a work meant to bring together new informations from archives, theories and new perspectives on the effects of destalinization in the communist bloc, the relations between Moscow and its allies, the system crises that occurred in the autumn of 1956 in Poland and Hungary and their consequences.

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Romania 1945-1989: Encyclopedia of the Communist Regime. Resistance, Opposition, Dissent. Biographical Dictionary
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Romania 1945-1989: Encyclopedia of the Communist Regime. Resistance, Opposition, Dissent. Biographical Dictionary

România 1945-1989: Enciclopedia regimului comunist - rezistenţă, opoziţie, disidenţă. Dicţionar biografic

Author(s): Flori Bălănescu / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; biographies; resistance; opposition; dissidents; Romania

Among the personalities presented in this volume we mention: Aurel Decei, Camil Demetrescu, Radu Demetrescu-Gyr, Ion Diaconescu, Adrian Dimitriu, Mircea Dinescu, Stefan Augustin Doinas, Traian Dorz, Silviu Dragomir, Anton Durcovici, Radu Filipescu, Victor Frunza, Constantin Galeriu, Vladimir Ghika, Constantin C. Giurescu, Paul Goma, Pantelimon Halippa, Iuliu Hossu, Virgil Ierunca, Dumitru Iuga, Iosif Jumanca, Kirill Kelley, Monica Lovinescu. “With the second volume, the dictionary's structure of ʻa story within storyʼ is more evident, in which the various themes naturally find their place in a vast and still insufficiently explored historiography territory, in which the main networks of armed resistance, opposition, but also the large or less known individual cases of opposition, dissent and resistance, whose common denominator is the ideological regime, with the great waves of arrests, investigations, harassment, pressure, internment in psychiatric asylums, etc. are outlined. The reader meets Orthodox, Catholics and Greek Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, Jews, from all nationalities living throughout Romania, the entire interwar political spectrum uniformed by communism, including Romanian Communist Party members or sympathizers, etc. Through objectives and methodology, the two volumes of the dictionary build links with other encyclopedic projects that appeared at NIST, such as ʻRepressive Mechanisms in Romania 1945-1989. Biographical Dictionaryʼ (9 vols., 2001-2011) or ʻRomania 1945-1989. Encyclopedia of the Communist Regime. The Repressionʼ (5 vols., 2011-2024).” (Flori Bălănescu)

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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders…
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Confessions of the Communist elite. Romania 1944-1965: rivalries, repressions, murders…

Confesiunile elitei comuniste. România 1944-1965: Rivalităţi, represiuni, crime…

Author(s): Andrei Șiperco / Language(s): Romanian

Keywords: Communism; Elite; Confession; Interview; Oral History

Starting with the ’70s until the revolution of December 1989, Alexandru Siperco conducted several hundred unofficial interviews, totaling thousands of pages, with 350 members and sympathizers from illegality of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) – among them many former members of the Communist nomenklatura or of the repression apparatus during the Gheorghiu-Dej regime – but also with representatives of former historical parties, including Corneliu Coposu, Ioan Hudita and Camil Demetrescu. No one, neither in Romania nor in the rest of the states of the former communist bloc, has initiated and even less has managed to achieve such an approach that concerns the uncosmitized history of communism. For Alexandru Siperco, the determinant was his desire to know as much as possible of the period between April 4, 1944, and the moment of March 19, 1965, the death of Gheorghiu-Dej. From the interviews given to Alexandru Siperco are not missing events such as: the act of august 23; actions for the conquest of power; liquidation of the political opposition; the struggle for power in the RCP and its consequences; collectivization and monetary reform; the role of Soviet advisers; the activity of repressive bodies; the regime in communist prisons; relations with Moscow leaders; the Rajk, Slansk and Kostov trials; foreign policy; blackmail, betrayals, assassinations; friends and rivals. There are also memories of illegals regarding the period of political detention, the Civil War in Spain, the French Resistance and the political emigration to the U.S.S.R. The testimonies present in this volume: Leonte Tismăneanu, Ana Toma, Vasile Topală, Lenuța Tudorache, Manole Tudorache, Gheorghe Turcu, Gheorghe Țuțui, Traian Udrea, Maria Ursu, Valentin Urum, Vasile Vaida, Isac Vasilescu-Albu, Ghizela Vass, Vasile Vâlcu, Gheorghe Vidrașcu, Raia Vidrașcu, Aurel Vijoli, Ion Vințe, Mihai Viziru, Vlaicu, Petre Vulpescu, Barbu Zaharescu, Gheorghe Zaharia, Hristache Zambeti, Costache Zmeu.

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