The Romanians : a history
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The Romanians : a history
I.B. Tauris, 1991
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Istoria românilor: De la origini pînă în zilele noastre
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Originally published: Los Angeles : Academia Româno-Americanâ, 1984
Bibliography: p. 325-343
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A history of the Romanian people which seeks to make intelligible their aspirations, achievements and plight. The author, who died in 1988, had been for many years the Director of the Romanian Radio Service for Europe. The book covers the course of Romanian history from Roman times to the 1980s. It focuses on the social structures, economics and political institutions of the principalities inhabited by the Romanian people in the course of their history.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Early times: origins - Thracians, Dacians, and Romans. "The Seal of Rome", the Dark Ages - rise of a people. Part 2 The Middle Ages (c. 1300-1716): society - was there a Romanian feudalism? the economy, social classes, political structures, the Romanians of Transylvania
- "International status and foreign policy" - foreign policy goals, means and methods, the international status of the principalities
- "Medieval Civilization - Byzantium after Byzantium" - the cultural setting, cultural institutions, literature, ideas, and the arts. Part 3 Despotism and enlightenment (1716-1831): "Phanariots and Habsburgs" - the phanariot period, economy and social life, social classes, the Habsburgs in Transylvania
- "Reform and Revolution" - enlightened despotism, the Boyar reforms, the age of revolutions
- "Enlightenment and Nationalism" - between east and west, the Romanian enlightenment, the rise of national consciousness. Part 4 The age of national revival (1831-1918): "Capitalism and Modernization" - the economy, from crafts to large industry, commerce, social structure, politics, institutions, and the power structure
- political life - domestic policy, foreign, World War I and the formation of Greater Romania
- "National Culture" - civilization, cultural modernization, ideological movements. Part 5 From Greater Romania to popular democracy (1918-47): "Greater Romania" - the political regime, the economy, society
- "The authoritarian Regimes" - the royal dictatorship, the national legionary state, the military dictatorship
- "From Authoritarianism to Totalitarianism" - the international context, the communist takeover, the people's democracy. Part 6 Communism in Romania (1948-83): "From Stalinism to Detente at Home and Abroad" - the Stalinist model - economy, politics, culture, foreign policy and the beginnings of liberalization
- "The Rise of Neo-Stalinism" - detente, the cult of personality and dynastic socialism. Part 7 Romania in the mid-1980s: economic performance, the standard of living, the role of the ruling class, societal responses. Epilogue: the 1989 Revolution and the collapse of Communism in Romania, Matei Calinescu and Vladimir Tismaneanu.
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