Witnessing Romania's Century of Turmoil - Memoirs of a Political Prisoner

Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of Communist rule in Romania.

List of contents

Foreword by Dennis Deletant
Preface
The Beginning of the Road
In Blaj
In Orastie
Student in Cluj
The University of Leipzig
Hamburg University
The University of Berlin
My Postdoctoral Exam
Scientific Researcher for the Rockefeller Foundation
Harvard University
Yale University
The University of Chicago
Columbia University
The University of Chicago Once More
America's Scientific, Cultural, and Sociopolitical Landscape
At the Universities of London and Paris
At the Department and Institute of Psychology in Cluj
Democracy and Dictatorship
The Repercussions of the International Political Crisis
The Attack against Rector Goanga
The Vienna Award
The Legionnaire Insanity
Marshal Antonescu's Government
Under Stalinist Occupation
The Romanian-American Association
The United States Lectures
Dr. Petru Groza
My Dismissal from the University
The Ordeal
Malmaison
At the Interior Ministry
The Trial
The Calvary
In Aiud Penitentiary
Back to the Interior Ministry
In Jilava
Aiud Again
Jilava Once More
The Pitesti Penitentiary
In the Penitentiaries at Dej and Gherla
Appendix: Nicolae M?rgineanu, Curriculum Vitae
Index

About the author

Nicolae Margineanu, Calin Cotoiu, Dennis Deletant

Summary

Combining the intimacy of memoir and the precision of history, the story of psychologist Nicolae Margineanu's imprisonment and survival conveys in striking detail the corrosive impact of Communist rule in Romania.

Product details

• Authors: Calin Cotoiu, Dennis Deletant, Dennis Dennis Deletant, Nicolae Margineanu
• Assisted by: Dennis Deletant (Editor), Dennis Dennis Deletant (Editor), Dennis (Customer) Dennis Deletant (Editor), Calin Cotoiu (Translation)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.2017
• EAN: 9781580465793
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-579-3
• No. of pages: 350
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 685 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe; Rochester Studies in East and Central Europe; Rochester Studies in East and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education