
Uncivil Society: 1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment (Stephen Kotkin)
The Worthy House (Charles Haywood)
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Cockin's 'Chau Cheku'
Cotkin says that ultimately, the securitate was a state of mind. It is worth reading chesof milass to understand how intellectuals approached communism. The opinions and actions of intellectuals were far less relevant to the fall of communism than those intellectuals would have it at the time. Ultimately, the rumanian regime simply recreated itself under a new name with less ideology and overt repression.
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