First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Depicts the rocky transition of Romania since 1989. Examines how nationalism has been used to deflect critical attention from economic mismanagement and human rights abuses.

This book analyzes Ceausescu's tools and goals, that is, party structure and how it was transformed in order to implement Ceausescu's concept of modernization which became interchangeable with the concept of building communism.

In 1973, Romanians were beginning to recognize that the regime of Nicolae Ceausescu, contrary to what his first five or six years in power seemed to imply, would bring no respite from communism. Instead, after a 1971 "mini cultural revolution" ended hope for a Bucharest "spring" and intellectual latitude was curtailed further in 1972-73, the ominous possibilities of Ceausescu were becoming evident. In 1973, I went to Romania on a dissertation research grant from the International Research and Exchanges Board. It was a year in which wide-ranging survey research was still possible. But it was also a time when historians and writers who had different ideas, or workers who gave thought to non-party union organization, felt the heavy hand of Ceausescu's Securitate. As happens to most graduate students and their field research, it was a formative experience with indelible impressions that remain today.

This account aims to explain not only the bloody course of recent events in Romania, from Timisoara to the miners, but also to analyze older and deeper trends which dominate Romanian politics, such as native fascism, inter-ethnic rivalry and a history of authoritarian rule.

Yosef Govrin was the Israeli Ambassador to Romania in the twilight of the communist era. Govrin describes Israeli-Romanian relations as he observed them from 1985 to 1989 after which the leader of Romania was deposed.

This history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) traces its origins as a tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s, to its years in national power from 1944 to 1989, and to the post-1989 metamorphoses.

Communist Genocide in Romania

JoA3 and Ludanyi trace and open up to scrutiny the oppressive minority politics of the Ceausescu era that ultimately contributed to the dictator's downfall in 1989.