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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 What Made Him Flee; 2 The Origins of Social Revolt; Father Bankrupt; Fuel for Fascism; My First Steps in the ""Movement; My Journalist Apprenticeship; 3 A Unique Historical Event: Conspiracy Between King and Communists; Pătrăşcanu and Bodnăraş; In the Royal Palace Through the Back Door; The Arrest of Antonescu; Baron Killinger Protests; 10 P.M.: The King's Call to Arms; 4 The Stalinist Faith; A Newspaper as a Party Task; The Soviet Fifth Column in the Party; Stalin: Maker of Party Leaders; Vyshinsky and the Petru Groza Cabinet |
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People's Democracies and Cold WarPurge of the Soviet Agents; Sentimentalnîi Chelovek; 5 The National Backlash; It All Started in Budapest; When the Bear Let Its Prey Go; The Seesaw of Class Ideology and National Strategy; Stalinist Desatellitization; Down with Economic and Military Integration!; Nikita Khrushchev: Smart but Boorish; Big Brother in a Fix; Reminiscences About Gheorghiu-Dej; My Turning Point; 6 The Two Faces of Communist Society; The Nice and Kind Face; Political Segregation; The Style of Party Activists; The Other Face; 7 Red Diplomat in Washington |
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Appointed by an American FarmerSecond Discovery of America; My Brief Encounter with Senator McCarthy; Smuggling the Platinum Catalyst Through Diplomatic Pouch; 8 The Illiterate Couple; I Knew Him Well; I Knew Her Too; Training Their Children with the Securitate; Le Coup de Parti; The Four Phases of Ceauşescu; The Mini-Cultural Revolution; Foreign Debt First; I Decide What Is Scientific!; My Relations with Ceauşescu; The Orchestrated Cult; Why Did He Last That Long?; Why Did Communism Fail?; 9 The Prelude of the Romanian Revolution; The Abortive Military Coup; The Braşov Riots |
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Dissidence in the PartyIn Washington and London; Promised Land Revisited; The Meeting with Gorbachev; The Letter of Six; Securitate: Ceauşescu's Praetorian Guard; The Real American Spy; 10 The Inside Story of the Revolution; Timişoara: The Spark That Lit the Blaze; Revolution on Television; The National Salvation Front; The Urban Guerrilla Warfare; The Night of the Generals; The Christmas Day Trial; Whodunit of Terrorists: Who Were They?; The Unfinished Business of the Revolution; 11 The Day After ... ; Twenty Years Until Democracy; The May 1990 Election and the NSF; If Not, a Head Shall Fall! |
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The Terrorists Are Still MissingShock Therapy Does Not Work in Romania; Why Center-Right?; Epilogue; Notes; Chronology of Events; International Perspectives: A Collection of Media and Policy Discussion; Index and List of Prominent Romanians; About the Book and Author |
| Summary |
My generation in Eastern Europe was caught in the middle of two revolutions (1944 and 1989), which instead of moving history ahead pushed it backward. We thus at first made a U-turn-a tortuous one, to be sure-from underdeveloped capitalism to underdeveloped socialism, but because socialism and underdevelopment are strange bedfellows, we have since discovered we were on the wrong path and are trying now to return to where we started. The drama of that generation is what this book is about |
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Print version record |
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Brucan, Silviu, 1916-2006.
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Brucan, Silviu, 1916-2006 fast |
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Communists -- Romania -- Biography
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Politicians -- Romania -- Biography
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Communism -- Romania
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Communism
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Communists
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Politicians
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Romania -- History -- Revolution, 1989.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh91000074
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Romania
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000235104 |
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1000235106 |
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9780429315909 |
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0429315902 |
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9781000271041 |
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1000271048 |
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9781000306989 |
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1000306984 |
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