Format:
1 online resource (viii, 205 pages)
ISBN:
9781139198929
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 May 2018)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107025929
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107647435
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tismăneanu, Vladimir, 1951 - Romania confronts its communist past Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018 ISBN 9781107025929
Language:
English
Keywords:
Rumänien
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Rumänien Comisia Prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung
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Sozialismus
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Geschichte 2000-2010
DOI:
10.1017/9781139198929
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