Velvet Totalitarianism

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 1. Introduction
Chapter 3 2. Romanian Stalinism and Post-Stalinism
Chapter 4 3. Nicolae Ceausescu and his Rule (1965-1989)
Chapter 5 4. The Secret Police, or Securitate
Chapter 6 5. Birth Control Policies and the Romanian Orphanages
Chapter 7 6. The Romanian Revolution of December, 1989
Chapter 8 7. Writing Politics
Chapter 9 8. Bibliography
Chapter 10 Reincarnations of Love: a novel
Chapter 11 Part I
Chapter 12 Part II
Chapter 13 Part III
Chapter 14 About the Author

Moving between extraordinary and ordinary lives, between Romania and the United States, velvet totalitarianism and relative freedom, dire need and consumerism, evoking her Romanian experience in the seventies, the emigration to the U.S. of her family in the eighties, and the 1989 uprising in Timisoara and Bucharest that marked the end of Ceausescu's regime, Claudia Moscovici offers her readers a multifaceted book - Velvet Totalitarianism - that is at once a love story, a political novel, and a mystery.