03574nam 2200637 450 991079725340332120200520144314.01-4985-0111-7(CKB)3710000000420491(EBL)2064140(OCoLC)910845562(SSID)ssj0001499343(PQKBManifestationID)12496782(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001499343(PQKBWorkID)11511023(PQKB)10307701(MiAaPQ)EBC2064140(Au-PeEL)EBL2064140(CaPaEBR)ebr11061945(CaONFJC)MIL795781(EXLCZ)99371000000042049120150617h20152015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPost-communist Romania at twenty-five linking past, present, and future /edited by Lavinia Stan and Diane Vancea ; contributors, Radu Cinpoes [and eighteen others]Lanham, Maryland :Lexington Books,2015.©20151 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4985-0110-9 1-4985-0109-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.""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 Romaniaâ€?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 Romaniaâ€?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"" 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 thaPost-communismRomaniaDemocracyRomaniaDemocratizationRomaniaRomaniaPolitics and government1989-Post-communismDemocracyDemocratization949.8032Stan LaviniaVancea Diane.1966-Cinpoeş RaduMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910797253403321Post-communist Romania at twenty-five3857376UNINA