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The Reeducation Trials in Communist Romania, 1952-1960
Mircea Stanescu
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 26. Weight in Grams: 588. 416 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; HBJD; HBLW3. Dimension: 223 x 150 x 26. Weight: 588.
The reeducation practices of communist Romania ended in 1951 with the transfer of political prisoners from Pitesti to the Danube-Black Sea Canal labor camps. After a mysterious process, these convicts became fanatical adherents to the regime, engaging in the torture of fellow convicts. When these acts became public, the regime responded with a series of trials against the prisoner-torturers, thereby shielding itselse and penitentiary staff members any complicity in these events. Mircea Stanescu conducts an impartial analysis of the reeducation trials and their unfolding consequences, extracting pertinent historical information from widespread ideological distortion. In order to do this, Stanescu ... Read more
The reeducation practices of communist Romania ended in 1951 with the transfer of political prisoners from Pitesti to the Danube-Black Sea Canal labor camps. After a mysterious process, these convicts became fanatical adherents to the regime, engaging in the torture of fellow convicts. When these acts became public, the regime responded with a series of trials against the prisoner-torturers, thereby shielding itselse and penitentiary staff members any complicity in these events. Mircea Stanescu conducts an impartial analysis of the reeducation trials and their unfolding consequences, extracting pertinent historical information from widespread ideological distortion. In order to do this, Stanescu ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
East European Monographs
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Bradenton, United States
ISBN
9780880336581
SKU
V9780880336581
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About Mircea Stanescu
Mircea Stanescu is a historian based at the University of Bucharest.
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