Communists before Communism: Criminal trials and prosecutions of the underground Communists in Romania
Communists 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)
The volume was released at the end of 2014 and contains six chapters, each dealing with the criminal trial(s) of an underground Communist fighter before or during the Second World War:
- Ana Pauker – Dumitru Lăcătușu, Ana Pauker’s criminal trial in Bucharest and Craiova (27th of February and 5th to 7th July 1936)
- Petre Constantinescu–Iaşi – Adrian Cioroianu, The case of professor Petre Constantinescu-Iaşi, a “velvet” Stalinist
- Nicolae Ceauşescu – Cristina Diac, A turn of fate: the trial of Nicolae Ceaușescu
- Vasile Luca – Liviu Pleşa, Vasile Luca during the underground years
- Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej – Elis Neagoe-Pleşa, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej and the “railworkers’ trial” (1933-1934)
- Petre Gheorghe – Mihai Burcea, Communist trails during the war: the case of Petre Gheorghe
The volume is available for free at the bookstore of University of Bucharest Publishing House, located in the Faculty of History building (Groundfloor), Reginul B-dul Elisabeta, nr. 4-12, Bucharest.
