Romania In The 1980s

Author : Daniel N. Nelson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000310283

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Romania In The 1980s by Daniel N. Nelson Pdf

Among communist states, Romania is, in several respects, a unique case. Romania has been the only Warsaw Pact member to deviate consistently from Soviet foreign policy norms and, alone within Eastern Europe, to avoid oil imports from the USSR. The leadership of Nicolae Ceausescu since 1965 has, meanwhile, governed through a studious commitment to socio-economic centralization and control often reminiscent of' Stalinist orthodoxy. Intellectual freedom, artistic liberty and workers' rights have changed little relative to Poland, Hungary or the transient Prague Spring. Such international and domestic policy distinctions, as well as a record of impressive industrial growth, necessitate an effort to understand the dynamics of Romania's socio-economic and political life. This volume is meant to delineate trends in political, social and economic life which will constitute dynamic elements for the Romanian system during the 1980s and beyond. Contributors, all scholars with lengthy research experience in Romania, the Balkans and communist states generally, have sought to identify factors likely to be influential during this and ensuing decades. In that sense, this is a "predictive" volume containing not "crystal-ball gazing" but the careful identification and assessment of trends influencing Romanian foreign and domestic policies, economic and political performance, and societal transformations. By suggesting elements crucial to socio-economic and political change in Romania, we hope to make observing this intriguing communist state somewhat less haphazard and more systematic.

Author : Mr.Dimitri G. Demekas,Mr.Mohsin S. Khan
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451850246

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The Romanian Economic Reform Program by Mr.Dimitri G. Demekas,Mr.Mohsin S. Khan Pdf

With the start of the process of its transition to a market economy in early 1990, Romania joined the ranks of other reforming Eastern European countries. At the starting point of its reform program, however, Romania was in a deep economic and institutional crisis and had no experience in even modest attempts to reform its economy. This paper outlines the main characteristics of the Romanian economic system before the reform, and presents the evolution of the reform program, as well as its achievements in the first year or so since it was launched.

Author : Viorel Achim
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9786155053931

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The Roma in Romanian History by Viorel Achim Pdf

One of the greatest challenges during the enlargement process of the European Union towards the east is how the issue of the Roma or Gypsies is tackled. This ethnic minority group represents a much higher share by numbers, too, in some regions going above 20% of the population. This enormous social and political problem cannot be solved without proper historical studies like this book, the most comprehensive history of Gypsies in Romania. It is based on academic research, synthesizing the entire historical Romanian and foreign literature concerning this topic, and using lot of information from the archives. The main focus is laid on the events of the greatest consequence. Special attention is devoted to aspects linked to the long history of the Gypsies, such as slavery, the process of integration and assimilation into the majority population, as well as the marginalization of Gypsies, which has historic roots. The process of emancipation of Gypsies in the mid-19th century receives due treatment. The deportation of Gypsies to Transnistria during the Antonescu regime, between 1942-1944, is reconstructed in a special chapter. The closing chapters elaborate on the policy toward Gypsies in the decades after the Second World War that explain for the latest developments and for the situation of this population in today's Romania.

Author : H.-R. Patapievici
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Romania
ISBN : 9639116580

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Flying Against the Arrow by H.-R. Patapievici Pdf

Translated from the best selling Romanian edition, Flying against the Arrow, this quasi-autobiographical book describes the life of an intellectual living under extreme political conditions, paying particular attention to the 'unbearable 80s'. The book vividly portrays the difficulties encountered by a young intellectual trying to shape himself under the oppressive Ceausescu regime and provides a stark depiction of a man's intellectual suffocation under hard-line socialist rule. The book's overall significance is therefore far more wideranging than just Romania or the 1980s.

Author : Lucian Boia
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633860045

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History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness by Lucian Boia Pdf

There is a considerable difference between real history and discourse history - this book stems from this idea. The author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythified from the perspective of the present day, of present states of mind and ideologies. Boia closely examines the process of historical culture and conscience in nineteenth and twentieth century Romania, particularly concentrating on the impact of the national ideology on history. Based upon his findings, the author identifies several key mythical configurations and analyses the manner in which Romanians have reconstituted their own highly ideologized history over the last two centuries. The strength of History and Myth in Romanian Consciousness lies in the author's ability to fully deconstruct the entire Romanian historiographic system and demonstrate the increasing acuteness of national problems in general, and in particular the exploitation of history to support national ideology.

Author : Andrei Bodiu,Romulus Bucur,Georgeta Moarcăs
Publisher : Pite̦sti, România : Paralela 45 Publishing House
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Romanian poetry
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114910925

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Romanian Poets of the '80s and '90s by Andrei Bodiu,Romulus Bucur,Georgeta Moarcăs Pdf

Author : Dennis Deletant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315481555

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Ceausescu and the Securitate by Dennis Deletant Pdf

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 : Enikő Vincze,Norbert Petrovici,Cristina Raț,Giovanni Picker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319762739

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Racialized Labour in Romania by Enikő Vincze,Norbert Petrovici,Cristina Raț,Giovanni Picker Pdf

This book critically examines the making and persistence of impoverished areas at the margins of Romanian cities since the late 1980s. Through their historical outlook on political economy and social policy, combined with media and discourse analysis, the eight essays of Racialized Labour in Romania forge new and cutting-edge perspectives on how social class formation, spatial marginalization and racialization intersect. The empirical focus on cities and the labour and the plight of the Roma in Central and Eastern Europe provides a vantage point for establishing connections between urban and global peripheries, and for reimagining the global order from its margins. The book will appeal to scholars, students, journalists and policy makers interested in Labour; Race and Ethnicity; Cities; Poverty; Social Policy; Political Economy and European Studies.

Author : Peter Siani-Davies
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0801473896

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The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 by Peter Siani-Davies Pdf

The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was the most spectacularly violent and remains today the most controversial of all the East European upheavals of that year. Despite (or perhaps because of) the media attention the revolution received, it remains shrouded in mystery. How did the seemingly impregnable Ceausescu regime come to be toppled so swiftly and how did Ion Iliescu and the National Salvation Front come to power? Was it by coup d'état? Who were the mysterious "terrorists" who wreaked such havoc on the streets of Bucharest and the other major cities of Romania? Were they members of the notorious securitate? What was the role of the Soviet Union?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.Recognizing that a definitive history of these events may be impossible, Siani-Davies focuses on the ways in which participants interpreted the events according to particular scripts and myths of revolution rooted in the Romanian historical experience. In the process the author sheds light on the ways in which history and the conflicting retellings of the 1989 events are put to political use in the transitional societies of Eastern Europe.

Author : David Turnock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Romania
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038161381

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The Romanian Economy in the Twentieth Century by David Turnock Pdf

Author : Sabrina Ramet
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000009545

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Yugoslavia In The 1980s by Sabrina Ramet Pdf

The opening years of 1980 were difficult for Yugoslavia: Open revolt has occurred in Kosovo province and economic hardship has added to a general crisis of confidence. The system of self-management, once the pride of Yugoslav ideologists, has come increasingly under fire in post-Tito Yugoslavia as proponents of the system search for a new basis of

Author : Constantin Iordachi,Dorin Dobrincu
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9786155211720

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Transforming Peasants, Property and Power by Constantin Iordachi,Dorin Dobrincu Pdf

The subject matter of the volume is part of larger research agenda on the process of land collectivization in the former communist camp, focusing on state, identity and property. The main innovation of the volume is to apply recent interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the collectivization process, asking what types of new peasant-state relations it formed and how it transformed notions of self, persons, and things (such as land). The project conceived of changes in the system of ownership as causing changes in the identity and attitude of people; similarly, it regarded the study of personal identities as essential for understanding changes in the system of ownership. This perspective is rare in the area-studies approaches to the topic.

Author : Michael J. Sodaro,Sharon L. Wolchik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1983-11-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349172511

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Foreign and Domestic Policy in Eastern Europe in the 1980s by Michael J. Sodaro,Sharon L. Wolchik Pdf

Author : Dennis Deletant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351781893

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Romania under Communism by Dennis Deletant Pdf

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 : Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783031357992

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Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea by Ruxandra-Iuliana Canache Pdf

This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.