Velvet Totalitarianism

Post-Stalinist Romania

By (author) Claudia Moscovici

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Publication date:

29 July 2009

Length of book:

414 pages

Publisher

UPA

ISBN-13: 9780761846949

This book introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction, in a story about a family surviving difficult times under a totalitarian regime due to the strength of their love.

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

A deeply felt, deftly rendered novel of the utmost importance to any reader interested in understanding totalitarianism and its terrible human cost. Urgent, evocative, and utterly convincing, Velvet Totalitarianism is a book to treasure, and Claudia Moscovici is indeed a writer to watch, now and into the future.