POST-COMMUNIST ROMANIA
Subtitle: COMING TO TERMS WITH TRANSITION
Publisher: Palgrave New York
Published: 2001
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780333977910
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.