Bøger i Society and Culture in East-Central Europe serien

This text shows how the example of Romania suggests that current ethnic tensions in East-Central Europe come not from a resurrection of pre-Communist Nationalism, but from the strengthening of national ideologies under Communist Party rule.

Understanding the dramatic political, social, and economic changes that have taken place in Poland in the mid-1980s is one key to predicting the future of the communist bloc. This title presents the breakthrough of 1989 in Eastern Europe as a consequence not only of systemic contradictions within socialism but also of a series of chance events.

Through essays, articles, and interviews, this title presents the reader with the momentous changes in Poland and East-Central Europe. Sharing the author's intellectual journey through a tumultuous era, it focuses on the subjects important to him.

Presents history of the Romanian Communist Party. This title traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members.

The author sits in a jail belonging to the totalitarian regime, yet his first concern. In this book, his essays are a guide to the origins of the revolution, and, more particularly, to its innovative practices.

Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of 'espionage' and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian prisons. This work offers an account of the first eight years of her incarceration - years of solitary confinement during which she was tortured, starved, and daily humiliated.