• Introduction--
• 1. Judging the past in post-traumatic societies: Romania in comparative perspective--
• 2. Romania before 2006--
• 3. Coming to terms with the past in Romania: the presidential commission--
• 4. Reactions to the condemnation and political re-arrangements after 2007--
• 5. The report's aftermath: interpretations, polemics, and policies--
• 6. Romania and the European framework of dealing with the communist past.
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Reckoning with mass crimes perpetrated by an ideologically driven regime entails engaging in a thorough-going exploration of its utopian foundations. In the case of Romania, such an analysis requires an interpretation of the role of personality in the construction of a uniquely grotesque and unrepentant form of neo-Stalinist despotism. Of all the revolutions of 1989, the only violent one took place in Romania. Confronting its communist past therefore involves addressing the abuses committed by the communist regime up to its very last day, its failure to engage in Round Table-type agreements with democratic representatives, and the repression during the first post-communist years, a direct legacy of the old regime. This book shows how moral justice can contribute to a restoration of truth and a climate of trust in politics, in the absence of which any democratic polity remains exposed to authoritarian attack.
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• Vol.
• 1. Cercul ereticilor
• vol.
• 2. Cercul brutelor
• vol.
• 3. Cercul ipocriților.

• Preface-- Translators Notes-- The Re-Education Through Torture in Romania-- Communism & Terrorism: Two Threats to the Contemporary Society-- The Heritage of a Criminal System-- Bread & Barbed Wire: Excerpts from Colonel Ion Boldur Latescus Journal.
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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.
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• Foreword / by Lynn Freed
• Old photographs
• Bunicu and Bunica : Drăgănşti, 1975
• Holidays
• The house of straw
• Earthquake
• The Black Sea
• The angels in Bunica's dream
• Pouring the foundation
• Hands at the window
• Burying the typewriter
• The watermelon child
• March 10, 1983
• Mom's dream
• An audience with my father at the Rahova Prison
• My parent's divorce
• Aiud
• Amnesty
• House arrest
• My visit to the American Embassy
• Last summer with Bunicu Neculai
• Goodbye, my village, October 1989
• Returning to Rome, 2006
• Afterword: The files, 2010-2011.

• Contents
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. From Democracy to Dictatorship, 1918-1944
• Chapter 3. Postwar Reconstruction and Transitional Politics, 1944-1948
• Chapter 4. 'Control Must Rest Firmly in our Hands': The Reconstruction of the Security Apparatus in the Soviet Zone of Occupation
• Chapter 5. 'A regime, not a government has changed': The Reconstruction of the Security Apparatus in Romania
• Chapter 6. Control versus Chaos: The Soviet Zone in Germany and Romania Compared
• Chapter 7. Epilogue Bibliography About the Author.
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From Berlin to Bucharest, from Warsaw to Sofia, Soviet tanks crossed national borders across East Central Europe at the end of the Second World War. The arrival of the Red Army marked an important turn in history. Within only a few years, the often unpopular communist parties developed into political organizations with mass followings. They managed to seize power, eliminate political opposition to their rule, and purge the state apparatus of undesirable personnel. In Securing the Communist State, Liesbeth van de Grift provides a new understanding of these organizations using recently disclosed material from the communist archives in Berlin and Bucharest. She reveals how these communist parties gained control over the security apparatus after 1945 in East Central Europe from a transitional justice perspective, focusing on purges and personnel policies. This book shows that the personal break after 1945 was not as radical as is often thought.
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• From democracy to dictatorship, 1918-1944
• Postwar reconstruction and transitional politics, 1944-1948
• "Control must rest firmly in our hands" : the reconstruction of the security apparatus in the Soviet zone of occupation
• "A regime, not a government has changed" : the reconstruction of the security apparatus in Romania
• Control versus chaos : the Soviet zone in Germany and Romania compared.

From Berlin to Bucharest, from Warsaw to Sofia, Soviet tanks crossed national borders across East Central Europe at the end of the Second World War. The arrival of the Red Army marked an important turn in history. Within only a few years, the often unpopular communist parties developed into political organizations with mass followings. They managed to seize power, eliminate political opposition to their rule, and purge the state apparatus of undesirable personnel. In Securing the Communist State, Liesbeth van de Grift provides a new understanding of these organizations using recently disclosed material from the communist archives in Berlin and Bucharest. She reveals how these communist parties gained control over the security apparatus after 1945 in East Central Europe from a transitional justice perspective, focusing on purges and personnel policies. This book shows that the personal break after 1945 was not as radical as is often thought.
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Haya Leah Molnar, née Eva Zimmermann, recalls growing up in Bucharest, Romania, during the 1950s. Though she heard Yiddish and kept Kosher at home, Eva remained unaware of her Jewish heritage. This ignorance protected Eva at her Communist-run school.

1989 was a year of revolution: it marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Beginning in Hungary, the retreat from communism picked up speed over the summer when the Poles won an overwhelming victory in free elections over their pro-Soviet rulers. In the fall, East Germany and Czechoslovakia achieved freedom with surprisingly little violence. Only Romania, at the end of the year, witnessed a savage battle in the capital and the summary execution of the most notorious of Eastern Europe's dictators, Nicolae Ceausescu.In "The Lost World of Communism", Peter Molloy, producer of the accompanying BBC series, collects first hand testimony of the people who lived in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania during the Cold War era, and reveals an astonishingly rich tapestry of experience that goes beyond the headlines of spies and surveillance, secret police and political corruption - in fact, many of the people remember their lives under communism as 'perfectly ordinary' and even hanker for the 'security' that it offered. From international figures like Vaclav Havel and Lech Walesa, via the shadowy figures of Eastern Europe's intelligence and security services to its 'ordinary' citizens, the voices collected on Peter Molloy's book evoke the moods, preoccupations and experiences of a world of that vanished almost overnight.
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• Raportul Comisiei Tismăneanu: analiză istoriografică / Florin Abraham
• Raportul: ansamblul și detaliile / Gabriel Andreescu
• O istorie naturală a comunismului românesc / Daniel Barbu
• Câte raporturi? Câ de finale? / Alex. Cistelecan
• Raport final / Andor Horváth
• De ce misionarii anticomunismului sunt incapabili să judece comunismul / Adrian-Paul Iliescu
• Genocid, politicid, democid: lacune importante în Raportul Tismăneanu / Michael Shafir
• Comunismul la raport: istorie și ideologie / Andrei State
• Lamentabilul eșec al anticomunismului / Ciprian Șiulea
• Condamnarea comunismului ca folclor urban / Ovidiu Țichindeleanu
• Câteva observații despre Raportul final al Comisiei prezidențiale pentru analiza dictaturii comuniste din România / Dan Ungureanu.