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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814725603321

Autore

Moscovici Claudia <1969->

Titolo

Velvet totalitarianism : post-Stalinist Romania / / Claudia Moscovici

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : University Press of America, c2009

ISBN

1-283-83377-8

0-7618-4694-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Disciplina

949.8032

Soggetti

Human rights - Romania

Romania Politics and government 1989- Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Romanian Stalinism and Post-Stalinism; 3. Nicolae Ceausescu and his Rule (1965-1989); 4. The Secret Police, or Securitate; 5. Birth Control Policies and the Romanian Orphanages; 6. The Romanian Revolution of December,1989; 7. Writing Politics; 8. Bibliography; Reincarnations of Love: A Novel; Part I; Part II; Part III; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

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.