Claudia Moscovici

Velvet Totalitarianism (eBook, PDF)

Post-Stalinist Romania

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book introduces students and the general public to the post-Stalinist phase of totalitarianism, focusing on Romania under the Ceausescu dictatorship, through the dual optic of scholarship and fiction, in a story about a family surviving difficult times under a totalitarian regime due to the strength of their love.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 414
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761890836
• Artikelnr.: 75143319

Autorenporträt

Claudia Moscovici is art critic and novelist based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She obtained her A.B. in Comparative Literature from Princeton University, a Ph.D. in the same field from Brown University and has taught courses on the French Enlightenment, Romanticism and art and aesthetics at Boston University and the University of Michigan. She's the author of the art and aesthetics textbook, Romanticism and Postromanticism (Lexington Books, 2010), and a founding partner of Panodyssey.com, an international art and culture collaborative venture started in 2019 by Universal Music France executive Alexandre Leforestier, IT innovator Yann Rigo and marketing entrepreneur Valentin Bert. Due to the popularity of her art blog, https://fineartebooks.wordpress.com/, she has been voted by artists one of the top five "most famous female art critics in the world" on ranker.com, the largest international database of opinions, with more than 1 billion votes.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Acknowledgements
Chapter 2 1. Introduction
Chapter 3 2. Romanian Stalinism and Post-Stalinism
Chapter 4 3. Nicolae Ceausescu and his Rule (1965-1989)
Chapter 5 4. The Secret Police, or Securitate
Chapter 6 5. Birth Control Policies and the Romanian Orphanages
Chapter 7 6. The Romanian Revolution of December, 1989
Chapter 8 7. Writing Politics
Chapter 9 8. Bibliography
Chapter 10 Reincarnations of Love: a novel
Chapter 11 Part I
Chapter 12 Part II
Chapter 13 Part III
Chapter 14 About the Author