Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)

The statistics of democide is a relatively new research field in Romania. The appearance of the volume entitled: The book of the dead from prisons, detention camps and deportations, led by writer and civic militant Romulus Rusan, represents a remarkable contribution towards clarifying some of the o...

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Main Author: Dan PAVEL
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Institutul European Iasi 2014-02-01
Series:Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice
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Online Access:http://www.revistapolis.ro/images/Numarul-3-2013/Dan_PAVEL.pdf
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description The statistics of democide is a relatively new research field in Romania. The appearance of the volume entitled: The book of the dead from prisons, detention camps and deportations, led by writer and civic militant Romulus Rusan, represents a remarkable contribution towards clarifying some of the obscure parts of communist democide. The book puts together the researches done by the lead author and his collaborators throughout the last five years and a series of texts investigated in the last two decades, from which some of the chapters have represented the basis of previous books, making thus possible for readers to experience a more broad approach of the repressive communist regime from our country. The book of the dead is an event-book, which deserves more than a summary. And a „summary” of the lists of individual deaths would be nonsense. It would lead to the statistical reductionism and the anomization that the researchers have tried to avoid. It is necessary to put it into context (national/international) and to analyze what happened in the last quarter of a century, the time passed since we are allowed to speak publicly about our near and bloody past, which a lot of people prefer to ignore in silence.
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spelling doaj.art-2acd906f9354413a97942058edf480b82022-12-21T19:27:00ZengEditura Institutul European IasiPolis: Revista de Stiinte Politice1221-97622344-57502014-02-0121(3)127148Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)Dan PAVEL0University of BucharestThe statistics of democide is a relatively new research field in Romania. The appearance of the volume entitled: The book of the dead from prisons, detention camps and deportations, led by writer and civic militant Romulus Rusan, represents a remarkable contribution towards clarifying some of the obscure parts of communist democide. The book puts together the researches done by the lead author and his collaborators throughout the last five years and a series of texts investigated in the last two decades, from which some of the chapters have represented the basis of previous books, making thus possible for readers to experience a more broad approach of the repressive communist regime from our country. The book of the dead is an event-book, which deserves more than a summary. And a „summary” of the lists of individual deaths would be nonsense. It would lead to the statistical reductionism and the anomization that the researchers have tried to avoid. It is necessary to put it into context (national/international) and to analyze what happened in the last quarter of a century, the time passed since we are allowed to speak publicly about our near and bloody past, which a lot of people prefer to ignore in silence.http://www.revistapolis.ro/images/Numarul-3-2013/Dan_PAVEL.pdfThe Book of the Deadcommunismterrorgenocidedemocidepoliticide
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Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)
Polis: Revista de Stiinte Politice
The Book of the Dead
communism
terror
genocide
democide
politicide
title Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)
title_full Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)
title_fullStr Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)
title_full_unstemmed Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)
title_short Cîţi oameni a omorît comunismul? Şi cine erau ei? (How many people did communism kill? And who were they?)
title_sort citi oameni a omorit comunismul si cine erau ei how many people did communism kill and who were they
topic The Book of the Dead
communism
terror
genocide
democide
politicide
url http://www.revistapolis.ro/images/Numarul-3-2013/Dan_PAVEL.pdf
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