Vladimir Tismaneanu

Romania Confronts its Communist Past (eBook, PDF)

Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108574679
• Artikelnr.: 53332220

Autorenporträt

Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland, College Park and the author of numerous books and articles on the revolutions of 1989, the history of world communism, and political ideologies. In 2006, he chaired the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. Between 1998 and 2004, he was the editor of the journal East European Politics and Societies.

Inhaltsangabe

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.