Dracula is dead
Subtitle: how Romanians survived Communism, ended it, and emerged since 1989 as the new Italy
By: Sheilah Kast, Jim Rosapepe
Contributors: Rosapepe, Jim
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 409
ISBN-13: 9781890862657
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; History; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Economic history
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: 1; label: Chapter 1
title: Listening to Romanians
pagenum: 15; label: Chapter 2
title: The Romania You Don't Know
pagenum: 18; label: Chapter 3
title: Beyond Communism
pagenum: 25; title: "We're Waiting for You"; title: Kiss My Hand!; title: Wave It or Wear It?; title: Fast Track to High Tech; title: Why Orthodoxy Is Important in Romania; title: How Orthodoxy Survived Communism; title: The Religious Revival Since 1989; title: Oh, Please Pardon My English; title: The Spies and the Spied-on; title: All Politics Is Local; title: Something to Chew On; label: Chapter 4
title: Living in "The Paris of the East"
pagenum: 55; title: Surviving Urban Renewal, Ceaușescu-Style; title: Nixon, Castro, and Pillar 23; title: A Romanian View of Americans Abroad; title: Let's Drink to That!; title: God's Love, Good Doctors, and Anti-Retrovirals; title: Generation X in the Balkans; title: Standing in Line for No Reason; title: Post-Cold War Frostbite; title: Rome vs. Romania: 1054 and All That; title: Pope John Paul II and Us; title: The Pope and the Patriarch; title: Welcome to Romania; title: Resting in Peace; title: We're Not on Plymouth Rock Anymore; label: Chapter 5
title: A Drive in the Country
pagenum: 93; title: Where Are the Speed Cameras?; title: Are You a Football Fan?; title: Sheilah's Renault Meets Its Maker; title: How the Boy Scouts Survived Communism; title: Houses of Aluminum Foil; title: Christmas in the Carpathian Alps; title: Skiing Under Communism; label: Chapter 6
title: The Good King
pagenum: 115; title: The King and Queen Would Be Pleased to Join You for Lunch; title: Want Ad for a Monarch; title: Crown Prince Promoted, Demoted, Promoted Again; title: Plotting a Coup When You're the King; title: Then the Russians Walked Through; title: Ex-King Still Looking for Work; label: Chapter 7
title: Inside Transylvania
pagenum: 141; title: The Dracula Who Drew Blood, the Dracula Who Drinks Blood; title: Mysterious Origins of the Legend; title: Dracula as George Washington; title: Visiting the Holy Land ... of Unitarians; title: That Romanian Work Ethic; title: How Many Attack Helicopters Would You Like?; title: How Romanian Monks Saved a Civilization; title: This Just In: Hungarians at Peace in Romania; title: This Country Has Changed; title: Who Wouldn't Want a German to Be Your Mayor?; title: Coming for Orphans, Staying for Families; title: Bram Stoker Came and the Germans Left; title: Coming to Aiud ... to Prison; title: Staying in Aiud ... for Europe; title: Breaking Up (State Property) Is Hard to Do; title: Teaching at Maryland, Living in Timișoara; title: Last Time We Didn't Go to Cluj; label: Chapter 8
title: Deep in the Heart of Romania
pagenum: 197; title: Why American Flyers Know Ploiești; title: Down in the Mines; title: Why They Stayed Under Communism; title: A Daughter's Choice to Leave After Communism; title: Romania 2.0; title: Fast Food and Fast Deals; title: Mother-in-law of the Year; title: How Romania Shrank State Firms ... Without Layoffs; title: The Bishop of Finance; title: Central Banker Shoptalk with Alan Greenspan; title: Are Foreign Children a National Security Priority?; title: Taking an American to Lunch; label: Chapter 9
title: In the Mountains of Maramureș
pagenum: 231; title: Can Jelly Donuts Kill?; title: The Cabbage Cure for Fractured Joints; title: "Christ is Risen! Truly, He is Risen!"; title: Remembering the Holocaust ... in Elie Wiesel's Hometown; title: The Memorial to Arrested Thoughts; title: Lessons After the Revolution; title: Earmarks for God's Work ... and His Workers; title: What the Communists Did Well; label: Chapter 10
title: It's Moldavia, Not Moldova
pagenum: 255; title: How Well Does Your Priest Sing?; title: Here Today, Tomorrow in Focșani; title: Steel City, Romania; title: Heh, Heh, Heh; title: The Americans Have Come to a July Fourth Picnic Near You!; title: Heavenly Monasteries, Down to Earth; title: Art as Religion and as History; title: Ducking Behind the Angels; title: A Weed in the Garden of Socialism; label: Chapter 11
title: The Blue Danube and the Black Sea
pagenum: 291; title: J.R. and Southfork Ranch on the Road to Constanța; title: Building the Canal; title: They Call It Romania for a Reason; title: From Pikesville to Constanța; title: Ciao, Romania; title: The Turks Who Stayed; title: If It's Tuesday, We Must Be in Istanbul; title: Women's Health, Local Politics; title: From Communist Boss to 'Mayor Friendly'; title: Her Highness; label: Chapater 12
title: Back in Europe
pagenum: 315; title: Why Are Romanian Gymnasts So Good?; title: Studying in America, Returning to Romania; title: Transplanting a Dream; title: Building a Better Romania; title: Making Up Is Hard to Do, Too: The Plaza of Reconciliation in Arad; title: Baptists in the Balkans, Rebuilding the Social Ministry; title: Five Faiths in Five Hours; label: Chapater 13
title: Living in the Balkans, in the Shadow of the Kremlin
pagenum: 339; title: Would NATO Bomb Transylvania?; title: Kosovo: The War Next Door; title: "Live from Bucharest!"; title: Joe Biden in Byzantium; title: Violating Yugoslav Airspace with Truth; title: Why Romania Supported NATO in Kosovo; title: Milošević on Trial; title: Romanians Abroad - Outside the Country, Inside the Culture; title: Leaving Moldavia, Entering Moldova; title: Travels with Radu; title: Caring for the Jewish Heritage; title: Good Fences, Good Neighbors, Good Borders with Ukraine; title: Are the Russians Coming - on Monday Morning?; label: Chapter 14
title: Why Romania Works
pagenum: 383; title: The Economic Boom of the Last Decade; title: 1989: Not the Start of History; title: Is Romania a Democracy?; title: Nineteenth-Century Incomes, Twenty-First-Century Skills; title: Romanian Model of Ethnic Relations; title: Romania's European Future; title: Index
pagenum: 402; title: Acknowledgements
pagenum: 407; title: About the Authors