Research Catalog

Title

Communism, post-communism and democracy : the great shock at the end of a short century / Ion Iliescu ; interviewed by Vladimir Tismaneanu ; introduction by Dinu C. Giurescu ; [translated by a team coordinated by Liviu Bleoca ; translation edited by Matthew Sweeney].

Author

Iliescu, Ion, 1930-

Publication

Boulder : East European Monographs ; New York : Distributed by Columbia University Press, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Tismaneanu, Vladimir.
• Bleoca, Liviu.

Description

501 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

East European monographs ; no. 653

Uniform Title

• Marele șoc din finalul unui secol scurt. English
• East European monographs ; no. 653.

Alternative Title

Marele șoc din finalul unui secol scurt.

Subject

• Iliescu, Ion, 1930- > Interviews
• Iliescu, Ion, 1930-
• Since 1989
• Communism > Romania
• Post-communism > Romania
• Democracy > Romania
• Communism
• Democracy
• Politics and government
• Post-communism
• Postcommunisme
• Democratisering
• Romania > Politics and government > 1989-
• Romania

Genre/Form

• Interview
• interviews.
• Interviews.

Note

• Previously published: Boulder : Social Science Monographs ; New York : distributed by Columbia University Press, 2004.

Contents

Political history through biographical references and hypostases -- An almost usual biography, but how usual? -- The essence of the pro-national positions of Gheorghiu-Dej and Nicolae Ceauşescu -- On Ceauşescu's so-called "July theses" and the label of "intellectualism" -- Under the pretence of "independence from Moscow", both Dej and Ceauşescu defended in fact their own positions -- The revolution of December 1989, the first organs of state power -- the National Salvation Front Council (NSFC), the Provisional Council for National Unity (PCNU); the multi-party system, free elections, convulsions -- From demolition to reconstruction and reconciliation. Reforms looking into the future; quests and clarifications on the fly -- The relations with the intellectual world -- Constitutional normality, democratic exercise, stands and ideas crystallizing; swarms of butterflies attracted to the "lamp of power" -- Although efficient in the field of economic development, the market economy does not solve the social problem on its own. The world before and after September 11, 2001 -- Politicizing without conviction or morals is a nonsense -- Integration and globalization in the light of the European social and economic model.

ISBN

• 0880335505
• 9780880335508

OCLC

• ocm64548529
• 64548529
• SCSB-14689609

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library