Volume 39, Number 5 · March 5, 1992
Survivors
By István Deák
The Romanians: A History
by Vlad Georgescu, edited by Matei Calinescu, translated by Alexandra Bley-Vroman, epilogue by Matei Calinescu, by Vladimir Tismaneanu
Ohio State University Press, 356 pp., $49.50
Jagendorf's Foundry: Memoir of the Romanian Holocaust, 1941–1944
by Siegfried Jagendorf, introduction and commentaries by Aron Hirt-Manheimer
HarperCollins, 209 pp., $22.95
'Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite': The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescus
by Edward Behr, foreword by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Hamish Hamilton, 255 pp., £15.99
National Ideology Under Socialism: Identity and Cultural Politics in Ceausescu's Romania
by Katherine Verdery
University of California Press, 406 pp., $39.95
The Fall of Tyrants: The Incredible Story of One Pastor's Witness, the People of Romania, and the Overthrow of Ceausescu
by Laszlo Tokes, with David Porter
Crossway Books, 226 pp., $9.95 (paper)
The Hole in the Flag: A Romanian Exile's Story of Return and Revolution
by Andrei Codrescu
Morrow, 249 pp., $21.00
Romania: The Entangled Revolution International Studies, Praeger
by Nestor Ratesh, foreword by Edward N. Luttwak
The Washington Papers/152, published with the Center for Strategic and, 179 pp., $39.95; $12.95 (paper)
Since the Revolution: Human Rights in Romania
Helsinki Watch/Human Rights Watch, 68 pp., $7.00 (paper)
If the art of survival is—as it probably must be—central to the politics of small nations, then the Romanians may be counted among the greatest practitioners of that art. At the cost of much suffering and a good deal of social corruption, they have, over several centuries, managed to preserve both their national pride and their rich culture in a difficult and often hostile environment.
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