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    STUDIA EUROPAEA - Issue no. 2-3 / 2005  
         
  Article:   BOOK REVIEW - VLADIMIR TISMĂNEANU, STALINISM FOR ALL SEASONS. A POLITICAL HISTORY OF ROMANIAN COMMUNISM, BERKELEY: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, 2003.

Authors:  LAURA HERŢA GONGOLA.
 
       
         
  Abstract:  Vladimir Tismăneanu’s Stalinism pentru eternitate…(Stalinism for all Seasons …) is a political history of Romanian communism, offering a well-documented (based on interviews with former communist leaders and on documents from the archives), as well as an all-encompassing analysis on the origins, evolution and particularities of the Romanian communist experience. The scientific endeavor was based on the author’s decision to write a political history of Romanian communism stemming from “an obligation“, as the author himself explains in the introductory chapter Why a History of Romanian Communism?, related to the scholarly, but also personal preoccupations, due to the milieu in which the author grew up, predominantly marked by the “Spanish Civil War, the saga of world communism, the rise of Nazism, the Moscow show trials and purges, the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, the Comintern, the Cominform, the excommunication of the Yugoslav Communist Party leader Tito, Stalin’s death […] Khrushchev’s denunciation of the cult of personality […], the Hungarian revolution, and many other chapters in the history of the twentieth century and Leninist internationalism”(pp. 23-24).  
         
     
         
         
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