1. Romania in The Warsaw Treaty Organization, vol. I: Authors: Gavriil Preda and Petre Opriş Collection Documents, National Institute for th

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1 1. Romania in The Warsaw Treaty Organization, vol. I: Authors: Gavriil Preda and Petre Opriş Collection Documents, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 2008, 436 p., 17 x 23 cm, ISBN (general), ISBN , Price: 17,5 lei Petre Opriş and Gavriil Preda published the first volume of a collection of documents, consisting of two parts, regarding Romania s relations within The Warsaw Treaty Organization (131 documents dated between 1954 and 1961). Published under the aegis of the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, the entire collection of documents focuses on the period The establishment of The Warsaw Treaty Organization on the 14 th of May 1955, represented a remarkably meaningful event within the Cold War dynamics. Upon the official appearance on the European continent of a political and military alliance governed by the Soviet Union, the existing tensions between the superpowers of that time, the USA and the USSR, and the tensions between the European countries that were on either of the two sides of the Iron Curtain heightened. For the political and military leaders of the countries belonging to the socialist camp, the establishment of The Warsaw Treaty Organization did not represent a surprise. The standardizing of the Polish, Czechoslovakian, Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian armies in terms of organization, doctrine and logistics started ever since January The Soviet military model imposed by Joseph Stalin at the Conference of the Representatives of the Popular Democratic States (Moscow, 9 th -12 th of January 1951) came into effect in all those countries between 1951 and Following the official establishment of The Warsaw Treaty Organization in May 1955, the plan of creating the Soviet type of army in every member states of that alliance entered a new stage. The fact that Romania was enlisted among the founding countries of The Warsaw Treaty Organization was not a surprise. There were Soviet troops in Romania ever since 1944 and, from 1951 onwards, the political and military Romanian leaders started to apply Joseph Stalin s sovietization program on the Romanian army. The essence of the political and military relations between the authorities in Bucharest and the countries that signed The Warsaw Treaty hadn t been changed by the occurring alterations in the Romanian army after the departure of the Soviet troops. The Romanian Communist leaders never officially declared their intention of withdrawing Romania from the structures of The Warsaw Treaty Organization; they were interested in being members of that alliance and not as much in maintaining the monolithic unity of the socialist countries as they were in keeping their power status. The conflicts between the Romanian Communists and the Soviet leaders politicians, diplomats, military men or economists didn t aim at changing the political and ideological system in Romania. This was probably one of the main reasons why Kremlin hadn t brutally intervened in Romania in the 60 s, as it happened in Hungary, in Romania in The Warsaw Treaty Organization. Documents ( ), Second tome: Authors: Gavriil Preda, Petre Opriş Collection Documents, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 2009, 17 x 24 cm; 447 p., ISBN , Preţ: 17,5 lei Petre Opriş and Gavriil Preda have published the second volume of an archival-based collection documenting the sometimes contentious relationship between Romania and the Warsaw Pact (112 documents from 1962 to 1968). Published by the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism in Bucharest, the entire collection focuses on the period First tome was published in 2008 and it contains 131 documents from 1954 to For more information, contact Petre Opriş (petreopris@yahoo.com). The establishment of the Warsaw Treaty Organization (WTO) on 14 May 1955 represented a highly significant event in the dynamic of the Cold War. Following the official emergence of a USSR-led political-military alliance on the European continent, the existing tensions between the superpowers of the time, the USA and the USSR, as well as between the European states divided by

2 the Iron Curtain deepened. For the political and military leaders of the states within the socialist camp, the establishment of the Warsaw Treaty Organization was not a surprise. The organizational, doctrinal and logistical standardisation of the Polish, Czechoslovak, Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian armed forces began as early as The Soviet military model imposed by Josef Stalin at The Conference of representatives of the people s democratic states (Moscow, 9-12 January 1951) was enforced in all those countries between 1951 and As soon as the Warsaw Treaty Organization was officially established in May 1955, the plan of creating Soviet-like armed forces in every member state of that alliance entered a new phase. Romania s inclusion on the list of WTO s founding states was not a surprise. Soviet troops had been stationed in Romania since 1944, and in 1951 the Romanian political and military leaders were enforcing the Soviet standards in the Romanian armed forces, according to the program which Josef Stalin had imposed. 3. The 1945 agrarian reform and the German peasants in Romania Authors: Dumitru Şandru Collection Studies, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 2009, 17 x 24; 351 p., ISBN , Price: 17 lei Dumitru Şandru s work approaches a subject which has been marginally examined so far in Romanian historiography. In spite of this fact, the archived material used by the author and the objective depth with which the historic realities have been analysed result in his endeavour of filling in that void in an almost-all-encompassing manner. As soon as the Red Army spread all throughout Romania, the Germans were subdued to a regime which was remarkable for its cruelly and unlawfulness from its very beginning. The tragedy within this ethnic group lasted for many years and materialized in numerous arrests and imprisonments in concentration camps or in compulsory work programmes, which from the 23 rd of August 1944 were run by the Romanian police and gendarmerie, at Moscow s demand. 4. Repressive Mechanisms in Romania. Biographical Dictionary. 9 th volume: T Z Authors: Octavian Roske (coordinator) Collection Dictionnaries, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 2011, 17X24, 457 p., ISBN , Price: 20 lei This volume ends the publication of the biographies of victims and members of the repressive system and it is a paper initiated under the scientific patronage of the National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism from Romanian Academy. As a result of the research carried by a team led by Octavian Roske, the volume represents a fundamental documentary source for the research of the totalitarian phenomenon. During the bibliographical research, information regarding executions ordered from political reasons, long prison sentences, internments in labor camps and psychiatric asylums ordered against the opponents of the totalitarian regime were registered. The studies material is presented like a dictionary containing names that represent both victims of the repression and persons who coordinated or executed the repressive activities. At the end of each article from the repertory, the documentary sources that were consulted are mentioned. 5. Ideology and Right-wing Organizations in Romania, vol. VII: Author: Ioan Scurtu (ed.) Collection: Documents, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 2009, 17 x 24; 384 p., ISBN , Price: 17,5 lei The book is a collection of documents, most of them published for the first time, discovered within several archives from Romanian Counterintelligence Service, Romanian National Archives, Romanian Military Archives, Ministry of Justice Archives. The work includes also other documents: articles from Romanian and foreign newspapers, Parliamentary debates from Senate and Deputies Chambers, legal documets related with the King Carol II regime, memoirs and trials

3 transcripts, etc. 6. A hot summer for the Romanian-Soviet relations. The Moscow talks from July Author: Vasile Buga Collection Documents, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 2012, 17x24, 236 p., ISBN , Preţ: 2,13 lei The National Institute for The Study of Totalitarianism (NIST) has edit the volume A hot summer for the Romanian-Soviet relations. The Moscow talks from July 1964, written by Vasile Buga, a specialist in the history of the Romanian-Soviet relations. By publishing this volume NIST fill a void that was outside the area of research because of the sporadic usage of the archive documents relevant for the matter in question. The volume contains unpublished archive documents about the extremely severe talks from Moscow, July 1964, that lasted for a week, between a delegation of C.C. of R.W.P., led by Ion Gheorghe Maurer, and a delegation of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, led by N.V. Podgornîi, concerning certain aspects from the Declaration from April 1964 of RWP regarding the communist and international movement. The volume also includes an account of the meeting that took place at the ending of the conversations with N.S. Hrusciov, the prime-secretary of C.C. of S.U.C.P. The documents from the volume were recovered from the existing funds of the National Archives (C.C. Fund of R.W.P. The Foreign Relations Section). The content of the documents, published for the first time in Romania, helps the historians and researchers, the teachers and students, every person interested in knowing the recent history of Romania understand the process of gradual alienation of P.M.R. from the way in which Moscow dealt with and interpreted some important aspects of the internal and international policy. Publishing these documents, including the exchange of letters between the leaders of the two parties concerning the appropriateness of the conversations, in a moment of tension between them, enables the historians and the foreign researchers, especially from Russia, China and the other former communist countries to get acquianted with and evaluate the exact position of P.M.R at a moment when Romania was reinforcing the independent position regarding the relations with Moscow. The volume contains an introductory study, a list of abreviations, the list of documents, documents, notes and comments, a name index. 7. Records of the Political Office and of the Secretariate meetings C.C. of P.M.R 1953, vol. V Authors: Camelia Moraru, Constantin Moraru Collection Documents, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 17 x 24, 307 p., ISBN , Price: 20 lei The present volume continues the series of documents Records of the Political Office and of the Secretariate C.C. of P.M.R meetings from , which appeared in the care of The National Archives, being coordinated by prof. Dr. Ioan Scurtu. The 20 documents included in this volume, original in their majority, are part of the C.C. of P.C.R Fund, the structural-office part, within the National Archives and are very important from a historical perspective, the year 1953 being the year of Stalin s death (the 5th of March 1953), this event having a significant impact, starting the fight for power in the communist parties of the Soviet bloc. The present volume comprises documents from the period January-July 1953, and it tries to describe as objectively as possible the following issues: the economic problems Romania was confronted with, after the failure of the five-year plan, which lasted four years; the situation of the Sovroms, the fight for power within/inside the single party, the problems that appeared after the agricultural collectivization, the ceasing of the construction for the Danube-Black Sea Canal, the re-launching of the C.A.E.R by the new Kremlin leader. The volume also mentions the safety measures taken by the heads of the RLP (daca e sa traduc in engleza), supported by the Security, so as to prevent actions hostile to the regime. These measures were similar to those taken by the RDG in Czechoslovakia and they materialized in the plan of evacuating some categories of individuals who were considered dangerous out of Bucharest. Moreover, the volume includes some documents referring to the preparation and the organization of the Second Youth World Congress and to the 4th

4 Youth and Students World Festival in Bucharest. The documents presented in this volume describe in detail the actions taken with the aim of excluding the Moscow group (Ana Pauker, Vasile Luca, Teohari Georgescu). A powerful argument in favor of publishing this paper is the fact that all the other four volumes published up to the present time, containing Records of the Political Office and of the Secretariate meetings C.C. of P.M.R were a real success both in what concerns specialists and the general public. 8. The Romanian Ploughmen s Front, Documents, Authors: Vasile Ciobanu, Sorin Radu, Nicolae Georgescu Collection Studies, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, 17x24, 434 p., ISBN , Price: 2,98 lei Research in what concerns the first postwar years in Romania has made a real progress in the last two decades. A series of documents proceeding from that period have been published. Nevertheless, there still are many unknown variables in the political game that characterized those years, when all the political power in Romania was monopolized by the Communist Party. One of the less known aspects is the role played in these complex historical events by the Ploughmen s Front, and their leader, dr. Petru Groza,. A selection of the documentation necessary for a detailed research in the domain is presented in the volume Ploughmen s Front. Documents , compiled by univ. Associate (nu stiu cum e conferentiar) dr Sorin Radu, the dean of the Faculty of History Lucian Blaga from Sibiu, conf. univ. Vasile Ciobanu, associate proffesor at the same university and NicolaeGeorgescu, a professor from Pitesti that presented his PhD paper on the Ploughmen s Front. The authors have also published other documents up to the present and they have selected in this volume, from documentary resources in Hunedoara, from the CC Fund of the PCR and from other archive resources, the most eloquent testimonies concerning the way in which this organization restarted its activities after the 23rd of August 1944 and the increase in the number of members, especially after dr Petru Groza was appointed the leader of the government desired by the soviets, on the 6th of March The published documents clarify many important aspects, such as the relations established between the PCR and the Ploughmen s front, between The documents also emphasize the way in which the communists manipulated the peasant s organization so to be able to control the peasantry and in order to remove the influence of the historical parties, especially the influence of the PNT. They also prove that some communists were appointed in leading positions of the Ploughmen s Front so as to manipulate it according to the interests of the communists, of Moscow, so as to control its activity. It is important to notice that in the Ploughmen s front, at all levels, one can encounter leaders who strongly believed they were representing and protecting the real interests of the peasants, who tried to be opposed to a total subordination to the PCR line, which they even rejected at times. These people were particularly monitored by the communists and they were marginalized, or excluded from their positions on the grounds that they were reactionary, well-off/rich etc. Some of these people, who were unmasked and excluded, were the scholars, those that could truly guide the peasants through the complicated political interests/ thicket of political interests from the postwar years. We can also encounter here the well-known tactic of including peasants that became aware of the communists intentions among those well-off in order to exclude them from the organization. Another wellknown phenomenon in the period was the inclusion in the organization of some individuals that were used to shifting political sides, individuals who actually dared to contradict the people that had fought on the West front, which had real merits, according to the usual slogan of the period. Sometimes these people could be excluded even from peasant organizations. Some of those who tried to oppose the total subordination to the ploughmen s organization were individuals who had been members of the Old Guard in Hunedoara County, in the 30 s, such as Petru Guia Motu, who held leading positions in the central organization and who bothered Constantin Agiu, Nechifor Stere and other communists sent by the party to monitor the Ploughmen s Front. What is also relevant is the fact that these people had their own organization, and held meetings where they criticised each other for some failures in their activity, for not being able to coordinate their actions. These

5 meetings also emphasize the attitudes opposed to the line set by the communists, attitudes that belong to some leaders of the Ploughmen s Front who who were not willing to comply to the indications received. Some propositions were made in the direction of stopping these leaders from having direct acces to dr Petru Groza so that they may not be able to inform him of certain facts. The prime minister seems to have been receptive to such interventions and he was not able to refuse those that had been there for him in Another category of documents concerns the propagandistic activity of the organization conducted through popular gatherings, through local and central activists and through the media. The media had serious problems, taking into account the fact that the issue concerned party newspapers controled exactly as in a totalitary regime. All these elements, the evolution of the Ploughmen/s Front and its still confusing/unclear historical problems are included by the volume s authors in the Introduction. Moreover, an editorial Note reveals the ways in which the texts were reproduced, the authors not interveening in the text/method of writing, even if it contains numerous errors. This can be justified by the fact that they want to emphasize the low cultural level of the activists, and of the organization s leaders. The authors also created a list of the abreviations used in the texts presented. In certain cases some explanaitions are given, in what concerns less known persons or situations, the authors considering that, given the fact that the volume adresses a specialised public it was unnecessary to provide presentations of well-known figures such as Petru Groza, the generals Sanatescu and Radescu, Stalin, Churchill, or organizations such as The Democrat National Front, The Democtatic Parties Block etc. 9. Romania The Communist Regime Encyclopedia. Repression. Vol. I: A-E Author: Octavian Roske (coordinator) Collection Encyclopedies, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism, ISBN , Price: 34 lei Romania The Communist Regime Encyclopedia. Repression. Vol I: A-E is the final report of one of the Institute's research project. The project team consisted in more than 50 researchers and faculty from major Romanian universities and institutes. Based on an extensive iconographic documents, the Encyclopedia describes the repressive mechanisms and institutions of the communist regime in Romania. Organized in several volumes and very well documented, the book contains, in alphabetical order, the nominal list of the repressive institutions, detention places, repression typology, judicial legal bases for sentencing, administrative detentions, forced residence, groups of victims, triggered events for repressive actions. The Encyclopedia includes maps, tables, statistics and facsimiles. Each article has a short bibliography with, books, studies and archives related with the main research theme. At the national level, the book is the first comprehensive publishing project. It is also an important research tool for the post-1945 Romania's history, with an integrative approach on institutional developments, legal and administrative dynamics during the communist regime. 10. Farther and farther away from Moscow... Romania s Foreign Policy in the context of the Chinese-Soviet conflict Autor: Dan Cătănuş Collection Studies, National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism,, 17x24, 455 p., ISBN , Preţ: 20 lei The volume Romania s Foreign Policy in the context of the Chinese-Soviet conflict, represents the edition updated and adapted for publication of a PhD Dissertation, defended by its author, the researcher Dan Cătănuş, at the Nicolae Iorga Institute of History of the Romanian Academy. The PhD coordinator was prof Ioan Chiper, PhD. For this thesis, the author received the distinction Summa cum laude. Even though it occupied a central position in the historiography of Romania after 1990, the rule of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej still rouses many controversies, especially when it comes to the reasons and the way in which the estrangement from the Soviet Union was put into practice. No work of great breadth has been published until now, which systematically dealt, based on archival research, with the way in which the policy of alienation from the Soviet Union

6 of Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej regime was put into practice. Dedicated to the problem of the desatelization of Romania during the Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej regime, the volume offers an original interpretation and, at the same time, an overall vision, coherent and logical, of some important and exciting events from the contemporary history of Romania. By acknowledging the vital role of archival research (Romanian, Soviet, Chinese or Western), but also by proving his being familiar to speciality literature, Dan Cătănuş disassembles in this paper many of the interpretative clichés that can be found in the historiography of the problem. Being written in a fluent style and being accesible, the paper presented here addresses not only an academic / university level, but also the general public, who is willing to discover new perspectives about the Romanian foreign policy of the first two postwar decades. It is worth mentioning that, out of the previous papers written by the historian Dan Cătănuş, the volume Between Beijing and Moscow. Romania and the Chinese-Soviet conflict, (I.N.S.T., Bucharest, 2004), that contains essential documents regarding the problem of the desatelization of Romania, won the 2004 prize awarded by the National Foundation for Science and Art of the Romanian Academy and in 2006 won the Eudoxiu Hurmuzaki prize of the Romanian Academy. The volume Romania s Foreign Policy in the context of the Chinese-Soviet conflict, , written by Dan Cătănuş focuses on the amazing evolution of Romania during the years from its position as a faithful satellite of the Soviet Union and from being the country with one of the most Stalinist regimes, to the position of rebel child of the communist camp, who proclaimed its independence from Moscow, and at the same time began to make progresses regarding the internal détente. In this context, the author analyzes the gradual evolution of the relationship between Romania and The Soviet Union, from total subordination ( ), to assumed subordination ( ) followed by proclaiming decisional autonomy ( ), aiming at the same time to construct strategic alternatives with China and with the Western powers, especially with U.S.A., but also a close connection between the evolution of the internal and external policy under the rule of Gheorghe Gheorgiu-Dej. From a methodological perspective, the author combines the historical analysis with elements from politology, geopolitics, sociology, political economy, collective and individual psychology. He also tried to touch upon the activity of the authorities in Bucharest from a global perspective, constantly comparing the events that took place internally to the situation from the communist camp, to the international communist move and to the evolution of the East-West relations. The book is organized in 14 chapters, plus a chapter of Conclusions, to which it adds a biographical dictionary of the persons involved in the events described in the book, a bibliography, a collection of approximately 40 photographs from the archives and an index of people. The book is done in special graphical conditions. The cover is made in policromy, and the maquetting is original.