Romania Confronts Its Communist Past: Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice

by Vladimir Tismăneanu, Marius Stan, Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107025923
• ISBN13: 9781107025929
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.3"