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The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History by Tismaneanu, Vladimir, Iacob, Bogdan C

“…A fresh interpretation of the contexts, meanings, and consequences of the revolutions of 1989, coupled with state of the art reassessment of the significance…”
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The Prague Spring as Seen from Romania by Tismăneanu, Vladimir, Stan, Marius

“…The Prague Spring of 1968 played an important role in Vladimir Tismaneanu's family’s and the Romanian communist regime’s dynamics alike. The analysis that he…”
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A Discussion of Aviezer Tucker's The Legacies of Totalitarianism: A Theoretical Framework by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…The concept of totalitarianism emerged between the two world wars in twentieth-century Europe to become a central concept of Cold War social science designed…”
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Understanding 1989: The Revolutionary Tradition Revisited by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…Two and a half decades have passed since the formidable tumult called by many the upheaval in the East —the chain of dramatic events that led to the…”
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The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume I, World Revolution and Socialism in One Country. Ed. Silvio Pons and Stephen A. Smith. Cambridge, Eng.; Cambridge University Press, 2017. xix, 655 pp. Index. Illustrations. Plates. Photographs. Figures. Tables. Maps. $150.00, hard bound. - The Cambridge History of Communism: Volume II, The Socialist Camp and World Power, 1941–1960s. Ed. Norman Naimark, Silvio Pons, and Sophie Quinn-Judge. xiv, 684 pp. Cambridge, Eng.; Cambridge University Press, 2017. by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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Hell and good company: the Spanish Civil War and the world it made. By Richard Rhodes by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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The new tsar: the rise and reign of Vladimir Putin. By Steven Lee Myers by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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The last empire: the final days of the Soviet Union. By Serhii Plokhy by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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Rethinking Soviet communism. By Peter Shearman by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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THE MOVING RUINS by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…If, under Leninist rule, kto-kovo? asked whether or not the Party was dominant, the question today in the nations of the extinct Soviet bloc is whether civic…”
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Stalin: Volume 1: The Paradoxes of Power, 1878–1928. By Stephen Kotkin. New York: Penguin Press, 2014. 976 p. $40.00 by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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Democracy and Memory: Romania Confronts Its Communist Past by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…All postcommunist societies face major dilemmas in confronting their traumatic past. A functional democracy cannot be based on lies, denial, and amnesia…”
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The Legacies of 1989: The Moving Ruins by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…The article reassesses the post-communist landscape in Eastern Europe in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1989. A quarter of a century after the upheaval,…”
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Totalitarianism and Political Religion: An Intellectual History. By A. James Gregor. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012. 320p. $65.00 by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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LENINIST LEGACIES, PLURALIST DILEMMAS by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…There is little public trust and only a vague recognition of the need for a shared vision of the public good-a point that has been emphasized by Vá-clav Havel,…”
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DEMOCRACY ON THE BRINK: A Coup Attempt Fails in Romania by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…Twenty-three years after the bloody uprising that freed it from the grip of the Ceausescu dictatorship, Romania seemed to have become a consolidated democracy,…”
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CITIZENSHIP RESTORED by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…[...] the memory of both Auschwitz and the Gulag, if acknowledged and taught in the postcommunist region, can help to entrench the societal values and…”
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Twenty Years of Postcommunism: Citizenship Restored by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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The balkan express: Fragments from the other side of war by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

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Postcommunism between hope and disenchantment by Tismaneanu, Vladimir

“…To assess the trajectory of the great transformations unleashed by the extraordinary events of 1989, it is important to identify the building blocks on which…”
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