Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989

by Dennis Deletant

Overview

First Published in 2017. This book contains Deletant's research and view that an inescapable feature of life in Romania under Ceausescu was the ubiquity of the Securitate or the security police, known officially for much of the period as the Department of State Security of the Ministry of the Interior. He seeks to right the omission in Romanian literature, until now, of the mechanism of terror which Stalin used in Romania to enforce his will and about the organisation of the Department of State Security.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781563246333
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/01/1995
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Police Terror and the Imposition of Communist Rule; Chapter 2 The Securitate and the Removal of Opposition, 1948–1965; Chapter 3 From Terror to Fear: Nicolae Ceaușescu and the Securitate, 1965–1978; Chapter 4 Ceaușescu’s Appeal to National Sentiment: The Case of Transylvania; Chapter 5 Cultivating Support: The Role of Bessarabia; Chapter 6 Compliance; Chapter 7 Dissent; Chapter 8 Central Planning as Coercion: Systematisation; Chapter 9 The Securitate and Repression, 1978–1989; Chapter 10 Epilogue;

Editorial Reviews

Deletant (Romanian studies, U. of London) provides an extensive history and examination of the Securitate, Ceausescu's secret police. The first two chapters address the methods used to impose Communist rule in Romania and revolutionize Romanian society. Subsequent chapters deal with Transylvania and Ceaucescu's appeals to national sentiment, the role of Bessarabia in cultivating support, compliance and dissent, central planning, repression in the years 1978 to 1989, and the present state of affairs. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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