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Marius Oprea

Marius Oprea was born on 22 May 1964, in Târgovişte. He became a Bachelor of History after graduating from the Faculty of History within the University of Bucharest. His main specializations are archeology and Romanian mediaeval history. Marius Oprea has also a PhD in history. His doctoral thesis is entitled The Role and the Evolution of the Securitate (1948-1964).

Marius Oprea
He published a volume about old Romanian books (A Stroll on the Printing House Alley, The Romanian Cultural Foundation Publishing House, Bucharest, 1996) and a poetry book entitled Tambourine Solo, Paralela 45 Publishing House, Piteşti, 2000, which was awarded the ASPRO award for debut.

Between 1995 and 1997, Marius Oprea was Senator Constantin Ticu Dumitrescu's personal counsellor in drawing up the law regarding the disclosure of the Securitate. In the interval between 1998 and 2000 he was a counsellor within the Romanian Presidency and also the Head of the Communication Department.

In 2004 and 2005 he wrote the leading articles for the Ziua daily paper. Marius Oprea is also the author of more than one hundred articles referring to the history of the Securitate, which were published in the written press, broadcasted on Free Europe Radio Station or comprised within various collections of studies and academic publications.

At present, Marius Oprea is the Prime Minister's counsellor on national security issues, research programmes co-ordinator for the Romanian Institute for Recent History, as well as the President of the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania.

Books

The Commonness of Evil. A History of the Securitate based on Documents. 1949-1989, Polirom, Iaşi, 2002 (winner of the prize for the best history book of the year, according to The Publishers’ Association of Romania)
The Day We Won't Forget. 15 November 1987, Braşov, (co-author Stejărel Olaru), Polirom, Iaşi, 2002
The Party's Securitate Officers. The Cadres Department of the Romanian Communist Party as Political Police. Case of study: The archive of the Municipal Party Committee Brasov (co-ordinator), Polirom, Iaşi, 2002
The Successors of the Securitate, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2004
L'héritage de la Securitate: Terreur en Roumanie, in Le jour se lčve. L'héritage du totalitarisme en Europe (1953-2005)- a volume coordinated by Stéphane Courtois, Les Éditions du Rocher, Paris, 2006
Zorba and the Cathedral, Humanitas, Bucharest, 2006

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