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Copyright Fundatia Societatea Civilia (Civil Society Foundation) Nov/Dec 2014

Abstract

By the late 1980s, Ceausescu had transformed Romania into a police state. The uprising from december 1989 that led to Ceausescu's downfall began with some incidents in Timisoara on 16 of December. The demonstrations spread to Bucharest, and further to others cities of Romania. We aimed to treat in this paper the Romanian Revolution of 1989, a mixture of spontaneous general uprising and conspiracy against Ceausescu organized by reform communists and disaffected elements of the Securitate and army. The perspective from which we have chosen to look at the event (and also to the road to the shock of december 1989) is through Dumitru Popescu's memoirs. Dumitru Popescu, ex-vice president of the State Committee for Culture and Art and President of the Council of Socialist Culture and Education, was one of the creators of the Ceausescu's ideology. He graduate the Party School of Social Sciences "A.A. Jdanov" in 1957-an ideological training institute where besides the unconditional commitment to the party some cultural training was required as well.

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Title
Dumitru Popescu si Revolutia Româna din 1989(1)
Author
Popescu, Narcis Ronald
Pages
18-26,142
Section
Revolutia din 1989
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Nov/Dec 2014
Publisher
Fundatia Societatea Civilia (Civil Society Foundation)
ISSN
12216720
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Romanian
ProQuest document ID
1658765360
Copyright
Copyright Fundatia Societatea Civilia (Civil Society Foundation) Nov/Dec 2014