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Velvet Totalitarianism: Post-Stalinist Romania de Claudia Moscovici

Velvet Totalitarianism: Post-Stalinist Romania

Autor Claudia Moscovici
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 iul 2009
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780761846932
ISBN-10: 076184693X
Pagini: 403
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 29 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția University Press of America
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

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

Recenzii

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.
This vivid novel by Claudia Moscovici, historian of ideas and wide-ranging literary critic, traces a family of Romanian refugees from the stifling communist dictatorship of their homeland through their settling in the United States during the 1980s. This fascinating and compelling story is at home historically accurate, exciting, sexy, and a real page-turner.
Claudia Moscovici's first novel, Velvet Totalitarianism, triumphs on several levels: as a taut political thriller, as a meditation on totalitarianism, as an expose of the Ceausescu regime, and as a moving fictionalized memoir of one family's quest for freedom.
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.
In Velvet Totalitarianism, Claudia Moscovici makes her readers viscerally feel the corrosive psychological demoralization and numbing fear totalitarian regimes impose on those who live under them. At the same time, with style and wit, and informed by her experiences as a child in communist Romania and then as an immigrant in the United States, she tells a story of resilience and hope. Velvet Totalitarianism is a novel well worth reading, both for its compelling narrative and for its important message.
The author experienced totalitarianism personally while living in Romania with her family during the Nicolae Ceausescu regime. And many of her own experiencies find their way into her historically rich piece of fiction.