The Re Education Experiment In Romania

Author : Gheorghe Boldur-Latescu
Publisher : Nova Science Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781624172892
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Re-education Experiment in Romania written by Gheorghe Boldur-Latescu and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Very little is known--not only by the Western world but also by the Romanian youth--about the magnitude of the horrors the communist regime in Romania committed over its 40 years of dictatorship. This book is a collection of essays written between 1995 and 2011, chronicling the experiences and presenting the views of a former political prisoner about past and current events in Romanian history. A retired professor of operations research, Boldur-Latescu is one of the few survivors of the 'Pitesti Phenomenon', the experiment launched in the 1950's in communist prisons by the Romanian Securitate, which aimed at re-educating political prisoners through peer exerted torture. This book is a continuation of the analysis that started with "The Communist Genocide in Romania", published in 2005 by Nova Publishers) with a particular emphasis on the examination of the social, political, cultural, and economic evolution of Romania after the 1989 Revolution. Some of the essays go beyond the analysis of the Romanian context by tackling current challenges faced by Western democracies through a unique prism. The link between communism and terrorism, the lack of reference to Christian values in the EU Constitution, and the relevance of Tolstoy's work or the Testament left by Peter the Great to the current situation in world politics, are only a few examples of the author's unique interpretation of current world events.

Author : Dumitru Bacu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789187339493
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Anti-Humans written by Dumitru Bacu and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-14 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Anti-Humans: Student Re-education in Romanian Prisons" takes place in Romania short after the Communists came into power with the help from the Soviet Union. But the book is much more than a record of the horrible crimes committed against the Romanian people during this time. It is a warning; it is a voice from beyond the grave, from the living dead behind the Iron Curtain. The book was smuggled out of through the Iron Curtain and translated from Romanian into English. The readers will have at their disposal a complete account of the dehumanization through imprisonment and torture of many of Romania's citizens by the communist regime. The people selected by the authorities for dehumanization were part of a cleverly defined group, university students. This was because in Romania, university students were considered a highly respected elite, including youth who combined vigor with unsurpassed patriotism and a lucid rigor, both intellectually and spiritually. In a time were the communism once again are growing stronger, not least among younger people, which do not know much about the Cold War, and even less regarding the tragedies that took place behind the Iron Curtain, the publishing of The Anti-Humans is filling an important function.

Author : Gheorghe Boldur-Lățescu
Publisher : Nova Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781594542510
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Communist Genocide in Romania written by Gheorghe Boldur-Lățescu and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communist Genocide in Romania

Author : Charles A. Nelson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674726073
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romania’s Abandoned Children written by Charles A. Nelson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-06 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The implications of early experience for children's brain development, behavior, and psychological functioning have long absorbed caregivers, researchers, and clinicians. The 1989 fall of Romania's Ceausescu regime left approximately 170,000 children in 700 overcrowded, impoverished institutions across Romania, and prompted the most comprehensive study to date on the effects of institutionalization on children's well-being. Romania's Abandoned Children, the authoritative account of this landmark study, documents the devastating toll paid by children who are deprived of responsive care, social interaction, stimulation, and psychological comfort. Launched in 2000, the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP) was a rigorously controlled investigation of foster care as an alternative to institutionalization. Researchers included 136 abandoned infants and toddlers in the study and randomly assigned half of them to foster care created specifically for the project. The other half stayed in Romanian institutions, where conditions remained substandard. Over a twelve-year span, both groups were assessed for physical growth, cognitive functioning, brain development, and social behavior. Data from a third group of children raised by their birth families were collected for comparison. The study found that the institutionalized children were severely impaired in IQ and manifested a variety of social and emotional disorders, as well as changes in brain development. However, the earlier an institutionalized child was placed into foster care, the better the recovery. Combining scientific, historical, and personal narratives in a gripping, often heartbreaking, account, Romania's Abandoned Children highlights the urgency of efforts to help the millions of parentless children living in institutions throughout the world.

Author : Adriana Cavarero
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231144571
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Horrorism written by Adriana Cavarero and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Words like 'terrorism' and 'war' are no longer capable of encompassing the scope of cntemporary violence. With this book, Cavarero effectively renders such terms obsolete. She introduces a new word, 'horrorism', to capture the experience of violence.

Author : Martin J. Croghan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideological Training in Communist Education written by Martin J. Croghan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Dennis Deletant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315481553
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ceausescu and the Securitate written by Dennis Deletant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2017. This book contains Deletant's research and view that an inescapable feature of life in Romania under Ceausescu was the ubiquity of the Securitate or the security police, known officially for much of the period as the Department of State Security of the Ministry of the Interior. He seeks to right the omission in Romanian literature, until now, of the mechanism of terror which Stalin used in Romania to enforce his will and about the organisation of the Department of State Security.

Author : D. Deletant
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502091
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hitler's Forgotten Ally written by D. Deletant and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-04-12 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first complete study in English of Antonescu's part in the Second World War. Antonescu was a major ally of Hitler and Romania fielded the third largest Axis army, joined the Tripartite Pact in November 1940 as a sovereign state and participated in the attack on the Soviet Union of 22 June 1941 as an equal partner of Germany.

Author : Mariela Neagu
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 144735799X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Silent Cradles written by Mariela Neagu and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds light on the 'Romanian orphans' including those who stayed in institutions throughout their childhood as well as those who were adopted, reporting on their experiences in children's homes, foster care, domestic adoption as well as intercountry adoption and providing new evidence on what is important for children in care today.

Author : Dennis Deletant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351781898
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romania under Communism written by Dennis Deletant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-11 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romania’s last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, offers a symbolic standpoint from which to penetrate that shadow and to throw light upon the entire period of Communist rule in the country. An appropriate point of departure is the observation that Romania’s trajectory as a Communist state within the Soviet bloc was unlike that of any other. That trajectory has its origins in the social structures, attitudes and policies in the pre-Communist period. The course of that trajectory is the subject of this inquiry.