Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the
story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and
survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of
Communist rule in Romania. Nicolae Margineanu's journey started in
1905 in the village of Obreja in Transylvania and ended in 1980 in
Cluj-Napoca, Romania. He began his life under Austro-Hungarian
rule, was witness to the 1918 Union, lived under three
kings(Ferdinand, Carol II, and Mihai), and survived all of
Romania's dictatorships, from absolute monarchy to the
Legionnaires' rebellion, the Antonescian dictatorship, and finally
the years under Communist rule. Margineanu studied psychology at
the University of Cluj and attended postgraduate courses in
Leipzig, Berlin, Hamburg, Paris, and London. He was awarded a
Rockefeller Foundation fellowship that enabled him to do research
for two years in the United States, at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the
University of Chicago, and Duke. He returned to Romania and became
chair of the psychology department at the University of Cluj. In
1948, Margineanu was arrested on a charge of "high treason," based
on his alleged membership in a resistance movement against
Communist rule. He was sentenced to twenty-five years'
imprisonment, of which he served sixteen, passing through the jails
at Malmaison, Jilava, Pitesti,Aiud, and Gherla. This book, his
autobiography, is a shocking testimony to the fate of the
intellectual elite of Romania during the Communist dictatorship. It
is a unique and invaluable addition to the literature in English on
the experience of political prisoners, not only in Communist
Romania but in authoritarian states in general. Nicolae Margineanu
(1905-1980) was a Romanian psychologist and writer who was a
political prisoner during theperiod of Communist rule. Dennis
Deletant is the Visiting Ratiu Professor of Romanian Studies at
Georgetown University. Calin Cotoiu is a translator based in
Bucharest, Romania.
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