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"This study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against the darkness of almost five decades of Communist rule. Romania, 1916-1941 is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in foreign policy, politics, society, internationalisation, and late development in interwar Central and Eastern Europe"--

"This study challenges the rose-tinted view of the interwar period in Romanian history, which is often judged against the darkness of almost five decades of Communist rule. Romania, 1916-1941 is a useful resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in foreign policy, politics, society, internationalisation, and late development in interwar Central and Eastern Europe"--

"Communism has cast a long shadow over Romania. The passage of little over a quarter of a century since the overthrow in December 1989 of Romania's last Communist leader, Nicolae Ceaușescu, offers a symbolic standpoint from which to penetrate that shadow and to throw light upon the entire period of Communist rule in the country. An appropriate point of departure is the observation that Romania's trajectory as a Communist state within the Soviet bloc was unlike that of any other. That trajectory has its origins in the social structures, attitudes and policies in the pre-Communist period. The course of that trajectory is the subject of this inquiry"--

In the years preceding World War II, opportunity, proximity of manufacture, and the logistics of supply all told in favour of the Third Reich. In these circumstances the British concluded that their only weapon against German ambitions in Romania were military subversive operations and an attempt to draw Romania out of her alliance with Germany

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- Map -- Preface -- 1. Police Terror and the Imposition of Communist Rule -- 2. The Securitate and the Removal of Opposition, 1948-1965 -- 3. From Terror to Fear: Nicolae Ceauşescu and the Securitate, 1965-1978 -- 4. Ceauşescu's Appeal to National Sentiment: The Case of Transylvania -- 5. Cultivating Support: The Role of Bessarabia -- 6. Compliance -- 7. Dissent -- 8. Central Planning as Coercion: Systematisation -- 9. The Securitate and Repression, 1978-1989 -- 10. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index