num_pages: 414
description: This book introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction, in a story about a family surviving difficult times under a totalitarian regime due to the strength of their love.
language: English
title: Velvet Totalitarianism: Post-Stalinist Romania
publisher: University Press of America