Books about Ceausescu

Ceausescu.org present you below revisions of selected books about Ceausescu and his so called "Golden Age". We recommend to buy the books from amazon.com .To buy any of the books listed here, click on the respective links.
amazon.com opened its virtual doors in July 1995 with a mission to use the Internet to transform book buying into the fastest, easiest, and most enjoyable shopping experience possible. While their customer base and product offerings have grown considerably since our early days, they still maintain the founding commitment to customer satisfaction and the delivery of an educational and inspiring shopping experience. amazon.com is the largest online bookstore worldwide.

	Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus' Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption by Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa
	DS Kirkus Reviews: "Despite the ghastly details of Romanian spying and the casually ordered murders, Pacepa's truthtelling has many moments of towering humor." Ingram: A former chief of Romania's foreign intelligence service reveals the extraordinary corruption of the Nicolae Ceausescu government of Romania, its brutal machinery of oppression, and its Machiavellian relationship with the West. An in side story of how Communist Party leaders really live.
	Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	My Second University : Memories from Romanian Communist Prisons by Dan L. Dusleag MD and Stanciu Stroia MD
	Editorial Reviews —Keith Hitchins, Professor of History, University of Illinois "Stanciu Stroia’s fortitude is astonishing. . . . My Second University has an important place in the prison literature published since 1989." —Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland "A most necessary and valuable contribution to our understanding of the survival of human dignity under conditions of abysmal pressure." —Barbara Spencer, News Director, WBIW (Bedford, Indiana) "A gripping diary worthy of reading." —The Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) "This is not an ordinary memoir; its words give voices to those who cannot speak. . . ." —Times Mail (Bedford, Indiana) "A piece of history necessary to consume, necessary to remember. . . ." Times Mail "My Second University is a piece of history necessary to consume, necessary to remember. . . ." Herald Times "My Second University is not an ordinary memoir; its words give voices to those who cannot speak. . . ." WBIW "This is a tribute to the spirit of survival under the most inhumane conditions. . . . a gripping diary worthy of reading." Book Description Following the Communist takeover of Romania in 1945, Dr. Stanciu Stroia refused to join the party, suffering professional humiliation and political persecution. He was arrested in 1951 and sentenced to seven years in prison; his estate was nationalized, his family exiled, and his practice confiscated. Ill with scurvy, he survived the prison ordeal and wrote his memoir, despite the risk of being detained again. "Stanciu Stroia's fortitude is astonishing...My Second University has an important place in the prison literature published since 1989." - Keith Hitchins, Professor of History, University of Illinois "An utterly impressive prison memoir...a most necessary and valuable contribution to our understanding of the survival of human dignity under conditions of abysmal pressure." - Vladimir Tismaneanu, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland "My Second University will take readers back to another place in time, in another country, seeing life through the eyes of a courageous man and others who chose to suffer rather than give up their freedom...It is a piece of history necessary to consume, necessary to remember." - Times Mail (Bedford, Indiana) With thirty-six pages of original photographs and one thousand never-before-published names of political detainees. For more information, please visit the author web site at http://DDusleag.Home.Insightbb.com
	Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	Ceausescu's Romania by Opritsa D. Popa (Editor), Marguerite E. Horn (Compiler)
	An annotated bibliography of North American and West European social sciences research on Romania' recent communist period, pulling together 1,035 citations from books, periodicals, reports, occasional papers, doctoral dissertations, and government documents in English, as well as representative source materials in French and German. The organization is in 21 topical chapters. Indexed by author and subject. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
	Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989 by Dennis Deletant
	Deletant (Romanian studies, U. of London) provides an extensive history and examination of the Securitate, Ceausescu's secret police. The first two chapters address the methods used to impose Communist rule in Romania and revolutionize Romanian society. Subsequent chapters deal with Transylvania and Ceaucescu's appeals to national sentiment, the role of Bessarabia in cultivating support, compliance and dissent, central planning, repression in the years 1978 to 1989, and the present state of affairs. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
	Click here to read an excerpt (17 sample pages online) Click here to Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	Vampire Nation by Thomas M. Sipos
	A young American visits Communist Transylvania during the closing years of the Cold War, discovering that Communism is vampirism, and a man is better dead than undead. This dark fantasy/satire (of both Nicolae Ceausescu's Rumania and of Communism itself) combines the insights of Ayn Rand with the black comedy of Kurt Vonnegut. Inner Sanctum, March 2001: Reads as if written by Orwell, Stoker, Kafka, and Swift sipping spiked martinis over at King's place. Masterful and distinct. The Eagle, September 5, 2000 (a publication of American University): One part Rambo, one part Blade and one part Catherine Zeta Jones... might make for a very successful video game. Insight magazine, August 7, 2000 (a publication of The Washington Times): A satiric horror fable about life in Communist Romania...with Sipos's own personal (and sometimes ornery) twist. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Nuketown.com, January 2001: A libertarian perspective inspired by Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan's witticims, and a quirky sense of humor. A welcome relief.
	Click here to read an excerpt (9 sample pages online) Click here to Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania   by Katherine Verdery
	Marcel Cornis-Pope, Slavic Review "Not only a rigorous historico-political analysis but also a rich narrative of the tribulations of intellectual work under socialism, which relies on field interviews, extensive readings, and on 'those old ethnographic standbys: intuition, overheard gossip, and rumor.'" Istvn Dek, New York Review of Books "Argues that nationalism was not as elsewhere (merely a tool in the hands of Party leaders, but, by becoming the main concern of the Party and the intellectuals, was a major element in discrediting Marxism and destroying the Party's legitimacy. . . . [A] highly learned book."
	Click here to read an excerpt (27 sample pages online) Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	Children Of Ceausescu by Kent Klich (Photographer), Heuta Muller, Chris Steele-Perkins (Photographer)
	More than a decade after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the overthrow and execution of brutal Romanian dictator Nicholas Ceausescu, the worst AIDS epidemic among children in the world bears out its infamous legacy in Romania, still one of the poorest and most fractured societies in Eastern Europe. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, tens of thousands of children in government hospitals and orphanages were systematically infected by unsterilized needles and HIV-tainted blood transfusions given to them instead of fod. When the scandal broke initially, help poured in from all over the world. Blood testing improved; hospitals got disposable syringes; nurses were retrained. But the damage to the children was irreversible, and many began to die. Over this last decade, thousands have died, but almost 10,000 children with AIDS remain. Beginning in 1994 and for the next five years, Magnum photographer Kent Klich traveled to Romania to document the appalling aftermath of Ceausescu's horror. In Children Of Ceausescu, he gives us visceral images and brief life stories of the boys and girls who suffer still from the state's mass experiment. Compassionate yet unflinching, these photographs offer a glimpse of the daily lives of these children, both terrible and mundane. They run and jump in puddles, they laugh out loud and draw pictures of flowers and birds, but they also know disease and death intimately and the realities of their infection are overpowering. It has been over a decade since full disclosure of the facts of this situation has been brought to the world's attention. Conditions have improved, thanks to the intervention of foreign non-governmental organizations and the willingness of Romanian government and medical personnel to finally confront the issue. Even so, the situation is one of sustained crisis without foreseeable end. AIDS in Romania is overwhelmingly among children with no political clout; the Romanian government has failed, through corruption and bureaucracy, to offer hope. There is not enough money for the high-priced, triple-therapy anti-retroviral drugs for all young patients, forcing the caretakers to choose who receives medication and who must suffer without. Many of the multinational drug companies have stood firm in greed and defense of patents and refused to offer discounts on treatments. Ignorance of the situation is now no excuse. These are deaths that are preventable. And there is so much to be done for these innocents - still. Children of Ceausescu was made possible by funding from the Swedish Arts Council, the Hasselblad Foundation, and Save The Children. About the Author Kent Klich was born in Sweden in1952. He studied psychology at the University of Gothenburg. After earning his degree he worked with adolescents with a history of social problems. Klich's other publications include The Book of Beth (Aperture, 1989) and El Nino: Children of the Streets, Mexico City (journal/University of Syracuse 2000). He has been a Magnum photographer since 1998 and has exhibited widely, including the Recontres de Perpignan, France in 1999.; Herta Muller was born in Romania...
	Click here to read an excerpt (23 sample pages online) Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	The Politics of Duplicity: Controlling Reproduction in Ceausescu's Romania by Gail Kligman
	The political hypocrisy and personal horrors of one of the most repressive anti-abortion regimes in history came to the world's attention soon after the fall of Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. Photographs of orphans with vacant eyes, sad faces, and wasted bodies circled the globe, as did alarming maternal mortality statistics and heart-breaking details of a devastating infant AIDS epidemic. Gail Kligman's chilling ethnographyof the state and of the politics of reproductionis the first in-depth examination of this extreme case of political intervention into the most intimate aspects of everyday life. Ceausescu's reproductive policies, among which the banning of abortion was central, affected the physical and emotional well-being not only of individual men, women, children, and families but also of society as a whole. Sexuality, intimacy, and fertility control were fraught with fear, which permeated daily life and took a heavy moral toll as lying and dissimulation transformed both individuals and the state. This powerful study is based on moving interviews with women and physicians as well as on documentary and archival material. In addition to discussing the social implications and human costs of restrictive reproductive legislation, Kligman explores the means by which reproductive issues become embedded in national and international agendas. She concludes with a review of the lessons the rest of the world can learn from Romania's tragic experience. From the Back Cover "Essentially an ethnography about politics, public policy, and lived experience, this timely analysis of the Orwellian tragedy of Ceausescu's Romania is superbly researched (a cross-disciplinary contribution of immense value and wide interest that in places almost reads like a novel." (Henry P. David, author of Born Unwanted)
	Click here to order the book from amazon.com
	Flying Against the Arrow : An Intellectual in Ceausescu's Romania by Horia Roman Patapievici
	Romanian Politics in the Ceausescu Era by Daniel N. Nelson (Editor)
	Israeli-Romanian Relations at the End of the Ceausescu Era by Yosef Govrin
	Romania After Ceausescu by Tom Gallagher
	War Revolution and Society in Romania by Ilie Ceausescu (Editor)
	The Hungarian Minority's Situation in Ceausescu's Romania by Rudolf Joo, Andrew Ludanyi (Editor), Chris Tennant (Translator)