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| Vladimir Tismăneanu is the son of ] and Hermina Marcu Sohn, both of whom were ]ish. His father came to Romania as a ] ] (surnamed ''Ciungul'') and then worked in the ] structures of the Romanian Communist authorities. Hermina Marcu Sohn was trained as a physician. After coming to Romania at the end of ], |
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| Tismăneanu graduated from the ] in ], and received his ] from the same institution in ]. |
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| Tismăneanu is a specialist în political systems and compared politics; he is editor of the ''East European Politics and Societies'' academic review and director of the ''Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies''. | |||
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Vladimir Tismăneanu (b. July 4, 1951 in Braşov), is a Romanian-born American politologist, professor at University of Maryland, College Park, and political analyst. In 2006, the Romanian President Traian Băsescu named him president of the Presidential Committee for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania, presenting its report to the Romanian Parliament on December 18, 2006.
Biography
Vladimir Tismăneanu is the son of Leonte Tismăneanu and Hermina Marcu Sohn, both of whom were Jewish. His father came to Romania as a Soviet commissar (surnamed Ciungul) and then worked in the propaganda structures of the Romanian Communist authorities. Hermina Marcu Sohn was trained as a physician. After coming to Romania at the end of World War II, Leonte Tismăneanu became chair of the Marxism-Leninism department of the University of Bucharest, and deputy head of Editura Politică. Members of the Romanian nomenklatura, his parents were progressively sidelined after 1952, when Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej acted against Ana Pauker.
During school, Vladimir Tismăneanu was in the same class as Nicu Ceauşescu
Tismăneanu graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1974, and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1980.
Tismăneanu is a specialist în political systems and compared politics; he is editor of the East European Politics and Societies academic review and director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies.
References
Works
- Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free Press, 1994)
- Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press, 1998)
- Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press, 2003).
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