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Velvet Totalitarianism

Velvet Totalitarianism

Velvet Totalitarianism

Claudia Moscovici

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2009
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Historia de Europa
ISBN:
9780761846932
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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.

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