Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Stefano Bottoni
• Francesco Di Palma

Titel

Between External Constraint and Internal Crackdown: Romania’s Non-reaction to Soviet Perestroika

Ist Teil von

• Perestroika and the Party, 2019, p.153

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• This chapter analyzes the reaction of Nicolae Ceaşescu’s regime to the Soviet quest for an internal reform of the communist system. Was the Romanian choice not to follow Mikhail Gorbachev’s advice inevitable? And how was it perceived both at home and abroad in the second half of the 1980s? Over the last two decades, a large literature has explored the neo patrimonial turn, the nationalist pervertion, and the repressive practices of the Ceaşescu regime.¹ The few recent archival-based accounts of the Soviet– Romanian relationships offer useful insights into the “inevitable conflict” between the anti-nationalist and supra-national Soviet reform path, and