Professor Vladimir Tismaneanu (College Park University of Maryland, Marius Stan

Romania Confronts Its Communist Past

Democracy, Memory, and Moral Justice

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on post-communist Romania, this book shows how moral justice can contribute to a restoration of truth, and trust in politics, reducing the risk of authoritarianism. For students and scholars of comparative politics, particularly in the areas of democracy, transitional justice, and East European and post-Soviet politics and societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 516g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025929
• ISBN-10: 1107025923
• Artikelnr.: 50206377

Autorenporträt

Vladimir Tismaneanu is professor of politics at the University of Maryland, College Park and the author of numerous books and articles on the revolutions of 1989, the history of world communism, and political ideologies. In 2006, he chaired the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. Between 1998 and 2004, he was the editor of the journal East European Politics and Societies.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Judging the past in post-traumatic societies: Romania in comparative perspective
2. Romania before 2006
3. Coming to terms with the past in Romania: the presidential commission
4. Reactions to the condemnation and political re-arrangements after 2007
5. The report's aftermath: interpretations, polemics, and policies
6. Romania and the European framework of dealing with the communist past.