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Velvet Totalitarianism

Post-Stalinist Romania

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Velvet Totalitarianism

Post-Stalinist Romania

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This book introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction, in a story about a family surviving difficult times under a totalitarian regime due to the strength of their love.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 1. Introduction
Chapter 3 2. Romanian Stalinism and Post-Stalinism
Chapter 4 3. Nicolae Ceausescu and his Rule (1965-1989)
Chapter 5 4. The Secret Police, or Securitate
Chapter 6 5. Birth Control Policies and the Romanian Orphanages
Chapter 7 6. The Romanian Revolution of December, 1989
Chapter 8 7. Writing Politics
Chapter 9 8. Bibliography
Chapter 10 Reincarnations of Love: a novel
Chapter 11 Part I
Chapter 12 Part II
Chapter 13 Part III
Chapter 14 About the Author

Product details

Published 29 Jul 2009
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 414
ISBN 9780761846932
Imprint University Press of America
Dimensions 232 x 156 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Author

Claudia Moscovici

Claudia Moscovici is art critic and novelist based…

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