Press Release - 12 April 2010
The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of Romanian Exile is announcing the structure of the Scientific Council.
In accordance with Governmental Decree no. 134/2010, the Scientific Council establishes the general aims and the scientific agenda of the IICCMRE. It is formed of fourteen unremunerated members who meet once a year and have equal positions within the foregoing body. The members of the Council are coordinated by the President of the Scientific Council. They can represent and promote the IICCMRE both on national and international level, due to their acknowledged renown in their field of competence. Furthermore, their professional experience, their access to specialized publications as well as their institutional affiliation will ensure the establishment of a rigorous, scientific framework in compliance with the international research standards in the field. The Scientific Council will support and facilitate the comparative and interdisciplinary studying of the communist regime and its consequences in Romania.
The President of the Scientific Council:
Vladimir Tismăneanu – Director, Center for the Study of Post-communist Societies, University of Maryland (College Park), SUA. The President of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (PCACDR, 2006-2007) and of the Consultative Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (2007-2010). Selective list of publications: Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press, 2003; Polirom, 2005); Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press, 1999; Polirom 1999); Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free Press, 1992; Polirom, 2007). Co-editor (with Dorin Dobrincu and Cristian Vasile) of the Final Report of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (Humanitas, 2007). He has recently edited Stalinism Revisited. The Establishment of Communist Regimes in East Central Europe (CEU Press, 2009).
The members of the Scientific Council:
Mihnea Berindei – Researcher, Institut des Sciences Sociales du Politique/CNRS. Selective list of publications: 13-15 June 1990: the Reality of a Neocommunist Power (co-author with Ariadna Combeş, Anne Planche). Co-editor (with Dorin Dobrincu and Armand Goşu) of the volume entitled The History of Communism in Romania. Documents – The Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Period (Humanitas, 2009), published under the aegis of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. Member of PCACDR.
Maria Bucur - John W. Hill Chair of European History (University of Indiana in Bloomington). Publications: Heroes and Victims. Remembering War in Twentieth Century Romania (Indiana University Press, 2009); Eugenics and Modernization in Interwar Romania. Series in Russian and East European Studies (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2002).
Dorin Dobrincu – Director of the National Archives of Romania; The Faculty of History within the “Al. I. Cuza” University; head researcher within the “A. D. Xenopol” History Institute, Iaşi. Co-editor (with Constantin Iordachi) of The Peasantry and the Power: the Collectivisation Process in Romania, 1949-1962 (Polirom, 2005). Co-editor (with Vladimir Tismăneanu and Cristian Vasile) of the Final Report of the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (Humanitas, 2007). Co-editor of The History of Communism in Romania. Documents – The Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej Period (Humanitas, 2009). Member of PCACDR.
Tom Gallagher – Chair of the Research Unit for South-East-European Studies, University of Bradford. Publications: Romania and the European Union: How the Weak Vanquished the Strong (Manchester University Press, 2009); Theft of a Nation: Romania Since Communism (Hurst & Co, 2005; Humanitas, 2004).
Paul Hollander – Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Center Associate, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies (Harvard University). Publications: Political Pilgrims: Travels of Western Intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China, and Cuba, 1928-1978 (University Press of America, 1990) and The End of Commitment: Intellectuals, Revolutionaries, and Political Morality (I. R. Dee, 2006).
Anna Kaminsky – Director, Stiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur. Publications: Die Berliner Mauer in der Welt (Berlin Story Verlag, 2009); Erinnerungsorte an den Holodomor 1932/33 in der Ukraine (Universitätsverlag Leipzig, 2008).
Mark Kramer – Director, Cold War Studies Program, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, Harvard’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. Publications: Soldier and State in Poland: Civil-Military Relations and Institutional Change After Communism; The Collapse of the Soviet Union. Mark Kramer edited and translated into English The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression (Harvard University Press, 1999).
Nicolae Manolescu – Ambassador of Romania to the UNESCO and the President of the Writers’ Union of Romania. Author of the Critical History of Romanian Literature (Paralela 45, 2008).
Bogdan Murgescu – The Faculty of History within the University of Bucharest; Director, the Centre for Administrative, Cultural and Economic Studies. Publications: (as editor) The Romanian Revolution of December 1989. History and Memory (Polirom, 2007); Being a Historian in the Year 2000 (ALL, 2006). He was distinguished with the “Nicolae Iorga” Award, granted by the Romanian Academy.
Andrzej Paczkowski – Collegium Civitas; Director of Modern History Studies within the Political Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, member of the Collegium of the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland. Publications: The Spring Will Be Ours: Poland and the Poles from Occupation to Freedom (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003); (editor) From Solidarity to Martial Law: the Polish Crisis of 1980-1981: A Documentary History (CEU Press, 2006).
Janos Rainer – Director of the Institute for the History of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Publications:Imre Nagy. A Biography (Macmilland, 2009); (co-editor cu Győrgi Pétéri), Muddling through the Long Sixties: Ideas and Everyday Life in High Politics and the Lower Classes of Communist Hungary (Trondheim, 2005).
Jacques Rupnik – Research Director, CERI, Sciences-Po, Fondation nationale des Sciences politiques, Paris. Publications: L'autre Europe: crise et fin du communisme (Éditions Odile Jacob, 1993); (editor) Le déchirement des nations (Seuil, 1995).
Levente Salat – The Faculty of Political, Administrative and Communication Studies within the Babeş–Bolyai University. Publications: A New Balance: Democracy and Minorities in Post-Communist Europe (Open Society Institute, LGI Books, 2003) (edited with Monica Robotin); Liberal Multiculturalism (Polirom, 2001).
Lavinia Stan – Political Science Department, St. Francis Xavier University. Publications: Church, State and Democracy in the Expanding Europe (Oxford University, 2009) and Religion and Politics in Post-Communist Romania (Oxford University Press, 2007) (co-author with Lucian Turcescu). Editor of Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past (Routledge, 2008).