Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism

Stalinism for All Seasons is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP). It traces the origins of the once—tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post—1989 metamorphoses of its members. Vladimir Tismaneanu uses documents that he discovered while working in the RCP archives in Bucharest in the mid—1990s and interviews with many of the party members from the Ceau_escu and Gheorghiu—Dej e...