Post-Communist Romania
Subtitle: Coming to Terms with Transition
Contributors: Duncan Light (Editor); David Phinnemore (Editor)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: April 14, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9780333791875
Subjects: European history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political structures: democracy; Political structures: totalitarianism & dictatorship; Social history; Transitional economies; c 1990 to c 2000; History; Business / Economics / Finance; History: World; Romania; Eastern Europe - General; Economic Conditions; Business & Economics / Economic Conditions; History / Europe / Eastern; History : Eastern Europe - General; 1989-; Economic policy; Politics and government; Post-communism
First sentence: The centrality of the revolution of December 1989 - understood as the revolutionary events of December themselves rather than the more lengthy revolutionary process - to contemporary Romanian history has been widely recognized since the violent overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu and his Romanian Communist Party (RCP) regime provided the foundation stone on which a slow but steady transition to a pluralist free market system has been built.