Romania under Communism: Paradox and Degeneration
Dennis Deletant Romania under Communism: Paradox and Degeneration (Routledge, 2018). Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romania’s last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, offers a symbolic standpoint from which to penetrate that shadow and to throw light upon the entire period of Communist rule in the country. An appropriate point of...
Socialism across the Iron Curtain. Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945
Jan de Graaf Socialism across the Iron Curtain. Socialist Parties in East and West and the Reconstruction of Europe after 1945 (Cambridge, 2018). This innovative pan-European history of post-war socialism challenges the East-West paradigm that still dominates accounts of post-war Europe. Jan De Graaf offers a comparative study of the ways in which the French, Italian and Polish Socialist Parties and the Czechoslovak Social Democratic...
Stalin’s Legacy in Romania
Stefano Bottoni The Hungarian Autonomous Region, 1952–1960 This study explores the little-known history of the Hungarian Autonomous Region (HAR), a Soviet-style territorial autonomy that was granted in Romania on Stalin’s personal advice to the Hungarian Székely community in the summer of 1952. Since 1945, a complex mechanism of ethnic balance and power-sharing helped the Romanian Communist Party (RCP) to strengthen—with Soviet...
Presentazione QF 3/2017 “Comunismi. A 100 anni dalla Rivoluzione di ottobre
giovedì 12 aprile, ore 17:00 Fondazione Caript via De’ Rossi 26, 51100 Pistoia Intervengono: Marcello Flores (UNISI – Direttore scientifico Istituto Nazionale Ferruccio Parri, Rete degli istituti per la storia della Resistenza e dell’età contemporanea) Stefano Bartolini (Direttore redazione QF) Roberto Barontini (Presidente ISRPT).
CfP: Où situer le communisme, entre démocratie et totalitarisme ?
Deadline 26 février 2018 Journée d’études Université Paris Diderot – 16 mai 2018 La journée d’étude sera organisée sous l’égide de l’Action structurante « La Fabrique du politique : utopies, émancipations, radicalisations. Une approche interdisciplinaire du politique ». Comité scientifique : Sophie COEURE (Université Paris Diderot, ICT), Marie CUILLERAI (Université Paris Diderot, LCSP), Martine LEIBOVICI (Université Paris Diderot,...
