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Author : Dinu C Giurescu
Publisher : National Trust for Historic
ISBN 13 : 9780891331575
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (315 download)
Download or read book The Razing of Romania's Past written by Dinu C Giurescu and published by National Trust for Historic. This book was released on 1989-06-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dinu C. Giurescu
Publisher : National Trust for Historic
ISBN 13 : 9780911697049
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (97 download)
Download or read book The Razing of Romania's Past written by Dinu C. Giurescu and published by National Trust for Historic. This book was released on 1989 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gheorghe Boldur-Lățescu
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594542510
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (425 download)
Download or read book The Communist Genocide in Romania written by Gheorghe Boldur-Lățescu and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communist Genocide in Romania
Author : Dennis Deletant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351781898
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)
Download or read book Romania under Communism written by Dennis Deletant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romania’s last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, offers a symbolic standpoint from which to penetrate that shadow and to throw light upon the entire period of Communist rule in the country. An appropriate point of departure is the observation that Romania’s trajectory as a Communist state within the Soviet bloc was unlike that of any other. That trajectory has its origins in the social structures, attitudes and policies in the pre-Communist period. The course of that trajectory is the subject of this inquiry.
Author : Dinu C. Giurescu
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781854547606
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The Razing of Romania's Past written by Dinu C. Giurescu and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architecturally, Romania was long regarded as one of the most interesting and beautiful countries In Europe. This book documents the systematic destruction of that heritage by the Ceausescu regime, a process of systematization intended to destroy the cultural indentity of a nation on a huge scale.
Author : Antoon De Baets
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351329839
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Crimes against History written by Antoon De Baets and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crimes against History takes a global approach to the extreme forms of censorship to which history and historians have been subjected through the ages. The book opens by considering the varieties of censorship, from suppression, dismissal, and defamation to persecution and murder. Part I, "Kill switch," tells the tragic story of how the censorship of history has sometimes turned into deadly crimes against history, with chapters looking at topics such as historians and archivists being killed for political reasons, attacks by political leaders on historians, iconoclastic breaks with the past, and fake news. Part II, "Fragile freedom," reverses the perspective and examines how the censorship of history has backfired. Chapters consider the subversive power of historical analogies and resistance to the censorship of history. The book also contains a "Provisional memorial for history producers killed for political reasons (from ancient times until 2017)". It is a double tribute: to the history producers who were killed and to those who mustered the courage to resist the blows of censorship. Comparing case studies from across the world and written from a human rights perspective, Crimes against History is an essential resource for anyone interested in how deeply history and politics influence each other, as well as for anyone wanting a fuller view of the history of history.
Author : Lucian Boia
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9781861891037
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Romania written by Lucian Boia and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romania occupies a unique position on the map of Eastern Europe. It is a country that presents many paradoxes. In this book the preeminent Romanian historian Lucian Boia examines his native land's development from the Middle Ages to modern times, delineating its culture, history, language, politics and ethnic identity. Boia introduces us to the heroes and myths of Romanian history, and provides an enlightening account of the history of Romanian Communism. He shows how modernization and the influence of the West have divided the nation - town versus country, nationalists versus pro-European factions, the elite versus the masses - and argues that Romania today is in chronic difficulty as it tries to fix its identity and envision a future for itself. The book concludes with a tour of Bucharest, whose houses, streets and public monuments embody Romania's traditional values and contemporary contradictions.
Author : Keith Hitchins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521872383
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book A Concise History of Romania written by Keith Hitchins and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and engaging new history charting Romania's development over 2000 years from its establishment to the present day.
Author : Peter Siani-Davies
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801442452
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (424 download)
Download or read book The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 written by Peter Siani-Davies and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Blending narrative with analysis, Peter Siani-Davies seeks to answer these and other questions while placing the events and their immediate aftermath within a wider context. Based on fieldwork conducted in Romania and drawing heavily on Romanian sources, including television and radio transcripts, official documents, newspaper reports, and interviews, this book is the most thorough study of the Romanian Revolution that has appeared in English or any other major European language."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Robert Bevan
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861896387
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book The Destruction of Memory written by Robert Bevan and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2007-04-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crumbled shells of mosques in Iraq, the bombing of British cathedrals in World War II, the fall of the World Trade Center towers on September 11: when architectural totems such as these are destroyed by conflicts and the ravages of war, more than mere buildings are at stake. The Destruction of Memory reveals the extent to which a nation weds itself to its landscape; Robert Bevan argues that such destruction not only shatters a nation’s culture and morale but is also a deliberate act of eradicating a culture’s memory and, ultimately, its existence. Bevan combs through world history to highlight a range of wars and conflicts in which the destruction of architecture was pivotal. From Cortez’s razing of Aztec cities to the carpet bombings of Dresden and Tokyo in World War II to the war in the former Yugoslavia, The Destruction of Memory exposes the cultural war that rages behind architectural annihilation, revealing that in this subliminal assault lies the complex aim of exterminating a people. He provocatively argues for “the fatally intertwined experience of genocide and cultural genocide,” ultimately proposing the elevation of cultural genocide to a crime punishable by international law. In an age in which Frank Gehry, I. M. Pei, and Frank Lloyd Wright are revered and yet museums and temples of priceless value are destroyed in wars around the world, Bevan challenges the notion of “collateral damage,” arguing that it is in fact a deliberate act of war.
Author : Daniel N Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000310272
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Romania After Tyranny written by Daniel N Nelson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1973, Romanians were beginning to recognize that the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, contrary to what his first five or six years in power seemed to imply, would bring no respite from communism. Instead, after a 1971 "mini cultural revolution" ended hope for a Bucharest "spring" and intellectual latitude was curtailed further in 1972-73, the ominous possibilities of Ceausescu were becoming evident. In 1973, I went to Romania on a dissertation research grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board. It was a year in which wide-ranging survey research was still possible. But it was also a time when historians and writers who had different ideas, or workers who gave thought to non-party union organization, felt the heavy hand of Ceausescu's Securitate. As happens to most graduate students and their field research, it was a formative experience with indelible impressions that remain today.
Author : Alexandru Popescu
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351911597
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Petre Tutea written by Alexandru Popescu and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-16 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Petre Tutea (1902-91) was one of the outstanding Christian dissident intellectuals of the Communist era in Eastern Europe. Revered as a saint by some, he spent thirteen years as a prisoner of conscience and twenty-eight years under house arrest at the hands of the Securitate. This book explores his unique response to the horrors of torture and 're-education' and reveals the experience of a whole generation detained in the political prisons. Tutea’s understanding of human needs and how they can be fulfilled even amidst extreme adversity not only reflects huge learning and great brilliance of mind, but also offers a spiritual vision grounded in personal experience of the Romanian Gulag. Following the fall of the Ceausescus, he has begun to emerge as a significant contributor to ecumenical Christian discourse and to understanding of wider issues of truth and reconciliation in the contemporary world. As Tutea's pupil and scribe for twelve years, as a psychiatrist, and as a theologian, Alexandru Popescu is uniquely placed to present the work of this twentieth-century Confessor of the faith. Drawing on bibliographical sources which include unpublished or censored manuscripts and personal conversations with Tutea and with other prisoners of conscience in Romania, Popescu presents extensive translations of Tutea, which make his thought accessible to the English-speaking reader for the first time. Through his stature as a human being and his authority as a thinker, Petre Tutea challenges us to question many of our assumptions. The choice he presents between ’sacrifice’ and ’moral suicide’ focuses us on the very essence of religion and human personhood. Resisting any ultimate separation of theology and spirituality, his work affirms hope and love as the sole ground upon which truth can be based. At the same time, hope and love are not mere ideal emotions, but are known and lived in engagement with the real world - in politics, economics, science, ecol
Author : Trond Gilberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429721994
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)
Download or read book Nationalism And Communism In Romania written by Trond Gilberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-04-10 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes Ceausescu's tools and goals, that is, party structure and how it was transformed in order to implement Ceausescu's concept of modernization which became interchangeable with the concept of building communism.
Author : Tino Mager
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317179056
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Architecture RePerformed: The Politics of Reconstruction written by Tino Mager and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First emerging at the beginning of the twentieth century, architectural reconstruction has increasingly become an instrument to visually revive a long bygone past. This book deals with the phenomenon of meticulous reconstruction in architecture. It argues that the politics of reconstruction go far beyond aesthetic considerations. Taking architecture as a major source of history and regional identity, the impact of large-scale reconstruction is deeply intertwined with political and social factors. Furthermore, memories and associations correlated with lost buildings of a bygone era are heavily influenced by their re-appearance, something which often contradicts historical events. Reconstruction has become an established way of building and dealing with the past, yet so far, there is no comprehensive scientific study on it. By bringing together eight case studies from Eastern Europe, France, Spain, China, Japan, Israel and Brazil, it provides valuable insights into this topic. The chapters analyse the political background of the reconstructions and identify the protagonists. In doing so, this volume adds to our understanding of the impact of reconstruction to memory and oblivion, as well as the critical power of reconstruction regarding contemporary architecture and urbanism.
Author : Dennis Deletant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315481553
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (154 download)
Download or read book Ceausescu and the Securitate written by Dennis Deletant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2017. This book contains Deletant's research and view that an inescapable feature of life in Romania under Ceausescu was the ubiquity of the Securitate or the security police, known officially for much of the period as the Department of State Security of the Ministry of the Interior. He seeks to right the omission in Romanian literature, until now, of the mechanism of terror which Stalin used in Romania to enforce his will and about the organisation of the Department of State Security.
Author : Maria Todorova
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 9633860342
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (338 download)
Download or read book REMEMBERING COMMUNISM written by Maria Todorova and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Remembering Communism examines the formation and transformation of the memory of communism in the post-communist period. The majority of the articles focus on memory practices in the post-Stalinist era in Bulgaria and Romania, with occasional references to the cases of Poland and the GDR. Based on an interdisciplinary approach, including history, anthropology, cultural studies and sociology, the volume examines the mechanisms and processes that influence, determine and mint the private and public memory of communism in the post-1989 era. The common denominator to all essays is the emphasis on the process of remembering in the present, and the modalities by means of which the present perspective shapes processes of remembering, including practices of commemoration and representation of the past.ÿ
Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000877124
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book East Central Europe and Communism written by Sabrina P. Ramet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The communists of East Central Europe came to power promising to bring about genuine equality, paying special attention to achieving gender equality, to build up industry and create prosperous societies, and to use music, art, and literature to promote socialist ideals. Instead, they never succeeded in filling more than a third of their legislatures with women and were unable to make significant headway against entrenched patriarchal views; they considered it necessary (with the sole exception of Albania) to rely heavily on credits to build up their economies, eventually driving them into bankruptcy; and the effort to instrumentalize the arts ran aground in most of the region already by 1956, and, in Yugoslavia, by 1949. Communism was all about planning, control, and politicization. Except for Yugoslavia after 1949, the communists sought to plan and control not only politics and the economy, but also the media and information, religious organizations, culture, and the promotion of women, which they understood in the first place as involving putting women to work. Inspired by the groundbreaking work of Robert K. Merton on functionalist theory, this book shows how communist policies were repeatedly undermined by unintended consequences and outright dysfunctions.
