Nicio dispută în „Trecuturi în dispută”. Sau despre un titlu înșelător

Recenzie: Eleonora-Maria Popa, „Trecuturi în dispută. Regimul comunist din România în literatura istorică din perioada 1990-2015”, Editura Argonaut, Cluj-Napoca, 2020, 307 pagini.

Sub semnătura Eleonorei-Mariei Popa, la editura Argonaut din Cluj-Napoca, a apărut recent volumul „Trecuturi în dispută. Regimul comunist din România în literatura istorică din perioada 1990-2015”. Lucrarea are la bază teza de doctorat susținută de autoare în anul 2018 la Universitatea „1 Decembrie 1918” din Alba-Iulia.

Supratitlul („Trecuturi în dispută”) sugerează că lucrarea ar fi legată de disputele din istoriografia dedicată regimului comunist, că ar exista „trecuturi” pe care autorii le dispută. Subtitlul („Regimul comunist din România în literatura istorică din perioada 1990-2015”) sugerează că obiectul studiului este „literatura istorică”, adică literatura de specialitate, științifică, specifică domeniului științific istorie, publicată între 1990 și 2015, pe tema „regimului comunist”.  Am fi îndreptățiți, așadar, să ne așteptăm la o carte despre controversele istoriografice privitoare la regimul comunist din România. Din păcate, așa cum se poate vedea cu ușurință încă de la primele pagini, conținutul nu justifică nicicum titlul incitant.

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Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War

Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War, edited by Philip Muehlenbeck and Natalia Telepneva.

In April 2018, I.B. Tauris published Warsaw Pact Intervention in the Third World: Aid and Influence in the Cold War, edited by Philip Muehlenbeck and Natalia Telepneva. 

Review on Elena Dragomir, “Romania’s participation in the Agricultural Conference in Moscow, 2-3 February 1960”

Elena Dragomir, “Romania’s participation in the Agricultural Conference in Moscow, 2-3 February 1960.”  Cold War History 13:3 (August 2013):331-351.  DOI:  10.1080/14682745.2013.768068.

Review by Mihai Croitor, Babeş-Bolyai University, Romania

Initially published on H-Diplo.

Cold War Perceptions

My PhD thesis was published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing: Cold War Perceptions. Romania’s policy change towards the USSR, 1960-1964.

This book investigates Romania’s early 1960s change in policy towards the Soviet Union, focusing on two questions in particular: namely, what actually changed and why this change occurred.

The Media vs. Historical Accuracy: How Romania’s Current Communist Trials Are Being Misrepresented

 By Elena Dragomir and Mircea Stănescu

Since the fall of 2014, Romania has received new foreign media attention over a trial that has rekindled interest in the country’s Communist past. However, in so doing, the media has also tended to exaggerate and misrepresent the current proceedings and their significance – and thus has failed to note how Romanian authorities in recent years have actually displayed a general disinterest and incompetence in regards to investigating and prosecuting the crimes of the former communist governments. 

The following analysis, written with Mircea Stanescu, sheds new light on the current trial, in the context of its deeper historical context, and its implications for current politics and future interest in addressing communist-era crimes against the Romanian people.

Hotel Intercontinental in Bucharest: competitive advantage for the socialist tourist industry in Romania

Hotel Intercontinental in Bucharest

In August 2014, Routledge published Competition in Socialist Society, a book of essays edited by Katalin Miklóssy and Melanie Ilic. The book explores how the concept of competition, which is usually associated with market economies, operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to emphasise co-operation, rather than competitive mechanisms.

Crearea CAER văzută din arhivele românești

The creation of the CMEA as seen from the Romanian archives

(For English see below!) Recent am publicat în jurnalul Historical Research un articol intitiulat The creation of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance as seen from the Romanian archives. El dezvoltă o teză pe care am prezentat-o pentru prima data într-un articol publicat în 2012 în Journal of Cold War Studies, potrivit căreia România a fost unul dintre inițiatorii fondării CAER.

Competition in Socialist Society

Edited by Katalin Miklossy and Melanie Ilic

Routledge, 2014 (August), 224 pages – Available for pre-order

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe

The concept of “competition” is usually associated with market economies, but this book explores how competition operated under state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where the socialist system, based on command economic planning and state-centred control over society, was supposed to emphasise “co-operation”, rather than competitive mechanisms.

Apariţie editorială. Relaţiile România-U.R.S.S.-Iugoslavia, 1954-1964

Mihai Croitor & Sanda Borşa,Triunghiul suspiciunii. Gheorghiu-Dej, Hruşciov şi Tito, 1954-1964, Cluj-Napoca, Mega, 2014, 244 pagini (vol. I),  540 de pagini (vol. al II-lea).

Cold War perceptions: Romania’s policy change towards the USSR, 1960-1964

Elena Dragomir, Cold War Perceptions: Romania’s policy change towards the Soviet Union, 1960-1964, Helsinki University Printing House, Helsinki 2014

Dragomir_cover ISBN 978-952-10-9682-2 (paperback)

ISBN 978-952-10-9683-9 (PDF)

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