Articles, publications

The book: “Defending the social order”: Secret Police and Gheorghe Crosneff in interwar Romania


by Mihai Burceaandco_carte_burcea_v2

The volume, released in September 2016, presents the biography of Gheorghe Crosneff, an important leader of the Communist Underground in Romania, actively involved in propaganda related activities. The book also depicts the permanent conflict between the Communist underground and the Secret Police, highlighting the actions undertaken by the police to dismantle the leadership of the Communist Party of Romania and the trial that followed. The volume also contains a visual-enclosure of several portraits from the Communist underground press.

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The antifascists’ trial from Craiova (5th of June – 7th of July 1936)


by Dumitru Lăcăușu

 

The chapter „Procesul ‘Antifasciștilor’ de la Craiova (5 iunie-7 iulie 1936)” [ The antifascists’ trial from Craiova (5th of June-7th of July 1936)] by Dumitru Lăcătușu has been published in the collective volume Fenomenul totalitar-realități istorice și abordări istoriografice [The totalitarian phenomenon: historical realities and historiographical perspectives] coordinated by Corneliu Beldiman, issued at Buchaest, INST Publishing House, 2015, (ISBN 978-973-7861-82-5).

Download: Lacatusu_INST 20.pdf (pdf)

General Iulian Vlad. A biography

by Dumitru Lăcătușu

Caietele CNSAS, 1(13)/2014, pp. 235-254
download: D.L. Caietele CNSAS 2014

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Writing home: some letters of the Romanian volunteers in the International Brigades


by Mihai Burcea

published in Studia Politica nr. 3/2015

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The Underground Communist Fighters during the Communist Regime. The Case of Imre Toth


by Dumitru Lăcătuşu

> accepted for publication in the journal Arhivele Totalitarismului
Keywords: Imre Toth, biography, underground communist fighter, Securitate, communist repression.

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A Prosopography of the Communist Underground in Romania. Preliminary Results and Methodological Questions.


New Article: Corina Doboș, „Abordări prosopografice ale ilegalității comuniste. Rezultate parțiale și chestiuni metodologice”, Studii și articole de istorie. 2015 (83): 201-217

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Communists before Communism: Criminal trials and prosecutions of the underground Communists in Romania

andco_coperta_dtp_outline_v3Communists before Communism: Criminal trials and prosecutions of the underground Communists in Romania

Adrian Cioroianu (editor),

Ed. Universității din București, 2014, 420 pages (ISBN 978-606-16-0520-0)

 

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Convenient Truths: Representations of the Communist Illegalists in the Romanian Historiography in Post-Communism (article)


by Dumitru Lăcătușu
published in BRUKENTHALIA, Romanian Cultural History Review Supplement of Brukenthal. Acta Musei, 4: 2014

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The OGPU/ NKVD residents in Basarabia in the 1930s. Case studies: Petre Goncearuc, Serghie Nicolau, Valeriu Bucicov, Ion Vidrascu si Vasile Posteuca (chapter)


by Mihai Burcea
will be published during 2015 in the volume Cristina Diac (coord.), Children of utopia. Comunism and communists in interwar Romania.

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Constantin Istrate: the atypical biography of torturer from Communist Romania (article)


by Mihai Burcea
published Autumn 2014 in the journal Archiva Moldaviae, 6:2014

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