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Romania: The Unfinished Revolution
The Romanian revolution was motivated by a desire for greater political and intellectual freedom and economic prosperity. It was the bloodiest of the eastern European transitions due to Ceausescu's cult of personality. However, many of the goals of the revolution are still unfulfilled. The lack of civil society, charges of political corruption, the failure to transform the economy, and concerns over the protection of ethnic minority rights are all factors in Romania's failure to become a fully integrated European country.
Tracing the country's political history and examining Romania's postcommunist politics, economic transition and foreign policy, this book contemplates the prospects for this country as it enters the twenty first century.
Tracing the country's political history and examining Romania's postcommunist politics, economic transition and foreign policy, this book contemplates the prospects for this country as it enters the twenty first century.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published May 1, 2000
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February 17, 2020
Roper has a vague idea of the story. But nothing more clear. In short this book rehashes the conspiracy theory existing in the Romanian books and spices things up with the Communist Party Propaganda.
Stumbled upon this and examined some parts of the book closer. Roper isn't aware that the PCR started in 1965 and gives the actions of PMR to the PCR which exists before 1944 in his documentation. Also, as noted above, Roper makes a story out of facts he does not grasp. Ex. p. 20 where he talks about Dej's personal campaign for industrialization. Only Marx, and later Lenin were exclusively concerned with the proletarians, the factory workers. In the case of peasants the gospel is silent and when the peasants cling to the private ownership of the land they are exterminated. In the case of Romania, there were almost no proletarians, and most of the population was peasant, so Dej had no other option than covert the population to proletarians so he could follow the guides. Also Roper does not seem to be away that there were three warring factions within the PMR, not two.
Stumbled upon this and examined some parts of the book closer. Roper isn't aware that the PCR started in 1965 and gives the actions of PMR to the PCR which exists before 1944 in his documentation. Also, as noted above, Roper makes a story out of facts he does not grasp. Ex. p. 20 where he talks about Dej's personal campaign for industrialization. Only Marx, and later Lenin were exclusively concerned with the proletarians, the factory workers. In the case of peasants the gospel is silent and when the peasants cling to the private ownership of the land they are exterminated. In the case of Romania, there were almost no proletarians, and most of the population was peasant, so Dej had no other option than covert the population to proletarians so he could follow the guides. Also Roper does not seem to be away that there were three warring factions within the PMR, not two.
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