The Reeducation Trials in Communist Romania, 1952– 1960

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 draws on groundbreaking investigations into Pitesti and Romanian concentration camps, drawing on the work of Robert Conquest, Annie Kriegel, and other scholars who have researched communism and communist show trials.

About the author

Mircea Stanescu is a historian based at the University of Bucharest.

Product details

• Authors: Mircea Stanescu, Mircea Stanescu
• Publisher: East European Monographs
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.04.2011
• EAN: 9780880336581
• ISBN: 978-0-88033-658-1
• No. of pages: 416
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 223 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 588 g
• Series: East European Monograph; East European Monograph; East European Monograph (COUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology