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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797253403321

Titolo

Post-communist Romania at twenty-five : linking past, present, and future / / edited by Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea ; contributors, Radu Cinpoes [and eighteen others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0111-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Disciplina

949.8032

Soggetti

Post-communism - Romania

Democracy - Romania

Democratization - Romania

Romania Politics and government 1989-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""List of Figures""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction""; ""I: Expectations for a Democratic Futureand Worries about the Communist Past""; ""1 The Start of a New Era?""; ""2 Coming to Terms withthe Communist Past""; ""3 Public Space and the MaterialLegacies of Communism in Bucharest""; ""II: Politics from Below Identity:Civil Society and the Media""; ""4 Ethnicity, Nationalism, andthe Minority Regime""; ""5 On Women, Feminism, and Democracy""; ""6 Political Culture and Participation""; ""7 Spectacular Alterations,Few Changes in Romania�s Media""

""III: Politics from Above:Representation, Parties, and Presidents""""8 Representation, Incumbency, and the Quality of Romanian Democracy""; ""9 Unsocial Democrats""; ""10 House of Cards""; ""IV: The EU Factor:Accession, Rule of Law,and Human Rights""; ""11 Romania�s Commitmentto the Rule of Law?""; ""12 Environmental NetworkGovernance in Romania""; ""Conclusion: Post-Communist Romania atTwenty-Five and Hopes for the Future""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""List of Contributors""

Sommario/riassunto

2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the collapse of communist



regimes in Eastern Europe. The events of 1989 are widely seen as having ushered in new all-encompassing reforms in almost all areas of life. In few other places were reforms more contested and divisive than in Romania, a country that suffered greatly under the sultanistic-cum-totalitarian dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu, faced the region's only bloody anti-communist revolt, and as such had the longest to travel on the road from communism to democracy. We now have a generation's worth of experience with these wrenching reforms tha