Yearbooks
The Intellectuals and the Communist Regime. The Stories of a Relationship, Polirom Publishing House, 2009
The situation of the Romanian historiography under the impact of Soviet influence during the first decade of the regime, the analysis of the Securitate files on the name of some of the members of the Writers’ Union, or the case studies referring to Monica Lovinescu, Ion D. Sîrbu, Miron Constantinescu are as many subjects of interest for all those preoccupied with this specific and yet extremely important part of Romania’s recent history.
Party and State Institutions during the Communist Regime, Polirom Publishing House, 2008
One can differentiate three parts within the structure of the yearbook. The first one is focused on the structures of the Communist Party, such as the Department of Cadres of PCR Iasi, The Department of Agitation and Propaganda, the organizations of women within the Communist Party; the second part proposes an analysis on communist institutions such as the frontier troops and the militia, while the third part makes an enquiry on the relationship between the church and the political power (the party-state).
Communist Elites before and after 1989, Polirom Publishing House, 2007
Communist Elites before and after 1989
, comprises a series of articles referring to the way that the party and the state elites of the communist period were recruited and structured, as well as to their subsequent evolution; the political and economic conversion strategies adopted after 1989 are furthermore examined.Within the first part of the yearbook, Laurenţiu Stefan considers the evolution of the recruiting patterns of governmental elites by means of compared analysis. Ruxandra Ivan insists on the overlapping of state and party elites during the communist regime and thus brings forward the situation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs at the beginning of the 1950s. Marius Stan, Mihai Burcea and Mihail Bumbeş reconstruct the recruiting pattern of superior penitentiary cadres, while Cristina Roman analyses the factions within the sole party since its setting up until 1952.
Within the second part of the volume, George Mink and Jean-Charles Szurek evaluate the role of the nomenklatura during the transitional process from one regime to another, focusing on identifying the conversion directions of the communist elites in Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic. Raluca Grosescu operates category cutting ups within the Romanian parties founded by the former nomenklatura and analyses their connection to the major themes that fuelled political conflicts in the aftermath of 1990. Alexandra Ionaşcu examines the perenity of the communist heritage as regards the recruiting of the members of post-1989 governments, while Mihăiţă Lupu brings forward a study on the functioning of the “ Ştefan Gheorghiu” party school and its postcommunist destiny.
The third part of the yearbook comprises reviews on the latest works published in Romania on the issue of communist elites. The second yearbook edited by the IICCR aims, as well, at filling the academic gap referring to the foregoing subject. Making no claims to having exhausted the topic, the volume aims at re-opening and nourishing related scientific debates.
"Why Communism Must Be Condemned", Polirom Publishing House, 2006
The studies comprised within this volume attempt at offering new and often provocative answers to the interrogation that comes as the title of the book.
The volume consists of articles referring to the functioning of the repressive apparatus of the communist state, to the repressive legislation and the study cases which illustrate the relationship between the Party and the Securitate, on one hand, and the various social groups subjected to repression, on the other.
The authors of the above-mentioned studies concentrate on the institutional analysis of the communist regime, on the description of the political police activities and the identification of the abuses and crimes perpetrated in the name of "class fight", as well as on the identification of the persons who may be held responsible.
Contents
Marius Oprea, ArgumentStejărel Olaru, About the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
IN MEMORIAM
In memoriam Ioan Gavrilă OgoranuClara Mareş, In memoriam Virgil Ierunca
THE DECONSTRUCTION OF THE COMMUNIST REPRESSIVE SYSTEM
Larisa Muşat, State Terrorism in Communist RomaniaCristina Roman, The Legislative Bases of Communist Repression in Romania
Marius Oprea, An Insight into the Securitate Apparatus
Raluca Grosescu, The Physiognomy of Nomenclature
Andrei Muraru, The Cadres' Department as Probing and Control Instrument within the Communist Party
DIMENSIONS OF THE TOTALITARIAN INFERNO
Marius Stan, On the Tragedy of Imposing the New Man. The Pitesti PhenomenonDumitru Lăcătuşu, Vasile Ciolpan: A Torturer's Profile
Clara Mareş, The Repression of the Securitate upon Writers between 1986 and 1988
Lucia Hossu Longin, The Drama of the Greek-Catholic Church: An Eternity of Terror
COMMUNISTS IN POST-COMMUNISM
Raluca Grosescu, The Conversion of Communist Elites in Transitional Romania (1989-2000)Mihai Burcea, Mihai Bumbeş, Public Figures under the Incidence of Lustration
IN SUPPORT OF THE VICTIMS OF COMMUNISM
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