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Comrade Baron : a journey through the vanishing world of the Transylvanian aristocracy
- Title
- Comrade Baron : a journey through the vanishing world of the Transylvanian aristocracy / Jaap Scholten; translated by Liz Waters.
- Author
- Scholten, Jaap, 1963-
- Publication
- Reno, Nevada, USA : Helena History Press, [2016]
- ©2016
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- Additional Authors
- Waters, Liz
- Description
- 425 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. That same day the Romanian Workers' Party was pleased to announce the successful deportation and dispossession of all large landowners. Communism demanded the destruction of these ultimate class enemies. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and later Ceausescu the aristocracy led a double life: during the day they worked in quarries, steelworks and carpenters' yards; in the evening they secretly gathered and maintained the rituals of an older world. To record this unknown episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who experienced the night of 3 March 1949. He spoke to people who survived the Romanian Gulag and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future. How is it possible to rebuild anything in a country that finds itself in a moral vacuum?
- Uniform Title
- Kameraad Baron. English
- Alternative Title
- Kameraad Baron.
- Subject
- Note
- "First published as Kameraad Baron - Een reis door de verdwejnende wereld van de Transsylvaanse aristocratie by Atlas Contact, Amsterdam 2010"--Title page verso.
- Includes chronological overview and glossary.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401).
- Call Number
- JFD 17-2517
- ISBN
- 1943596026
- 9781943596027
- OCLC
- 946693662
- Author
- Scholten, Jaap, 1963- author.
- Title
- Comrade Baron : a journey through the vanishing world of the Transylvanian aristocracy / Jaap Scholten; translated by Liz Waters.
- Publisher
- Reno, Nevada, USA : Helena History Press, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401).
- Added Author
- Waters, Liz, translator.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-2517