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Romania - The Entangled Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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Romania - The Entangled Revolution (Hardcover, New)
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This volume offers a full account of the December 1989 revolution
that toppled the Communist dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu in
Romania. Based on the author's personal investigation and
interviews, extensive screening of the Romanian and international
press, and critical examination of sources and interpretations, it
offers a full and objective analysis of a complex, often puzzling
series of events. Nestor Ratesh explores the economic, social, and
human disaster that led to the uprising, and then chronicles the
seven days of the revolution from its inception in the western city
of Timisoara to its climax in Bucharest on December 22, 1989, when
Ceausescu fled the city. The bloody and confused aftermath is
examined from different angles, with surprising details and telling
portraits of the main players, some of whom the author knows
personally. Ratesh skeptically scrutinizes the revelations, hints,
and rumors of conspiracies that reportedly either caused the
revolution--or hijacked it. Evidence available so far points toward
a genuinely spontaneous popular uprising during which large
segments of the army and secret police slowly realized that the
fall of the regime was imminent. They first blinked, then searched
for ways to save themselves--forcing Ceausescu to flee and bringing
into power both new and old politicians who represented change to
the masses but maintained relative stability in the power
structure. The paradox that an essentially anti-Communist
revolution would produce a regime controlled by former Communists
has dominated most of the developments since then. The book
concludes by examining the ensuing months of dislocation and
commotion. Clearly the December revolution remains unfulfilled,
entangled in a myriad of contradictions, obstacles, intrigues,
lies, rivalries, ineptitude, and plain wrongdoing.
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