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Archive Book Reviews

George Pavel Vuza, The notes of a prosecutor

Vremea Publishing House, Bucureşti, 2008



March 2010

Mircea Stănescu, Reeducation in communist Romania [1945 – 1952]: Aiud, Suceava, Piteşti, Braşov, vol. I, Polirom, 2010



October 2009

Lavinia Stan coord., "Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union", Routledge, 2008



July 2009

Cătălin Zamfir, A Subjective History of the Romanian Sociology from 1944 to the Present Day, Polirom Publishing House, 2009



June 2009

Mihnea Berindei, Dorin Dobrincu, Armand Gosu (ed.),  The History of Communism in Romania. Documents – The Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Period (1945 - 1965), Humanitas Publishing House, 2009



May 2009

Zoltan Rostas şi Antonio Momoc, Small Activists. Life Stories, Curtea Veche Publishing House, 2007



March 2009

Vladimir Tismăneanu, Cristian Vasile, Leonte Răutu, The Perfect Acrobat. The Masks of Evil, Humanitas Publishing House, 2008



December 2008

Valeriu Anania, Memoirs, Polirom Publishing House, 2008



November 2008

The Guard of the Romanian Youth, Braşov, 1956-1958. The History of an Anticommunist Organisation, second edition, Transilvania Expres Publishing House, Braşov, 2008



Octomber 2008

Ilie Popa (editor and coordinator), The Piteşti Experiment – Re-education through Torture. Culture, Youth and Education during Communist Dictatorial Regimes, 2007



September 2008

Sorin Oane, The History of Vâlcea County. Case Study, Conphys Publishing House, 2007



August 2008

Jean-François Soulet, The History of Eastern Europe from the Second World War to Present Day, Polirom Publishing House, 2008



July 2008

Vladimir Tismăneanu, The Archaeology of Terror, third edition, Curtea Veche Publishing House, 2008



June 2008

Stelian Tănase (coord.),  The Brucan File. Documents of the Third Counter-Espionage Division within the State Security Department (1987-1989), Polirom Publishing House, 2008



April 2008

Boris Groys, Stalin – The Complete Work of Art. The Divided Culture of the Soviet Union. Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin. Die gespaltene Kultur in der Sowjetunion, München-Wien, 1988



March 2008

Lăcrămioara Stoenescu, Children – Enemies of the People, Curtea Veche Publishing House, 2007



February, 2008

Călin Morar-Vulcu, The Republic Is Making its People. The Construction of Political Identities within Official Speeches in Romania, 1948-1965.


January, 2008

Hungary 1956: the Rebellion of the Minds and the End of the Communist Myth. Coordinators: Doina Jela, Vladimir Tismăneanu



December, 2007

Giorgio Agamben, What Is Left of Auschwitz. The Archive and the Witness

November, 2007

Marian Boboc, Mihai Barbu, Lupeni 1977. Surveillance Continues! * Code Name - "Sârbulescu": the Writer of the Miners, Ion D. Sârbu, in the Year of his Fellows' Great Strike



October, 2007

Mihai Dinu Gheorghiu, Intellectuals within the Structures of Power. Morphologies and Social Directions



September, 2007

Gheorghe Motrescu, Memoirs. They Have Destroyed Me, but They Haven't Defeated Me



August, 2007

The Securitate Files. Case studies



July, 2007

The Pseudo-Memoirs of a Securitate General: Selected Documents. Editors: Cristina Anisescu, Silviu B. Moldovan



June, 2007

"The Scores" of the Securitate. Directives, orders, instructions (1947-1987)



May, 2007

Neculai Constantin Munteanu, The Last Seven Years at Home: A Journalist within the Securitate Files. Introductory interview and notes by Doina Jela



March, 2007

The Anti-Communist Resistance: Scientific Research and Museum Valuation, vol II

January, 2007

The Central Committee Nomenclature of the Romanian Workers’ Party

December, 2006

The Anti-Communist Resistance: Scientific Research and Museum Valuation, vol I

November, 2006

Ruxandra Cesereanu (coordinator), Communism and Repression in Romania. The Thematic History of a National Fratricide

October, 2006

Marius Oprea, The Face of Death: a Dialog with Vladimir Bukovski on the Nature of Communism