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Vladimir Tismăneanu
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Vladimir Tismăneanu (b. July 4, 1951 in Braşov), is a Romanian-born American political scientist and professor at University of Maryland, College Park. 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, a Romanian Communist Party activist, and Hermina Marcu Sohn, a physician, both of whom were Jewish. His father came to Romania as a Soviet commissar and then worked in agitprop structures, returning to Romania at the end of World War II, and becoming chair of the Marxism-Leninism department of the University of Bucharest. Progressively after Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej acted against Ana Pauker, the Tismăneanus were sidelined inside the Romanian nomenklatura; in 1960, Leonte Tismăneanu was stripped of his position as deputy head of Editura Politică.

During his years in the present-day Jean Monnet High Scool for students belonging to the nomenklatura, Vladimir Tismăneanu was in the same class as Nicu Ceauşescu, son of Gheorghiu-Dej's successor Nicolae Ceauşescu. He graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1974, and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1980. Tismăneanu graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1974, and received his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1980.

Tismăneanu's alleged communist convictions as a youth are the topic of a major controversy, and frequently contrasted with his Presidential Committee appointment. According to Victor Gaetan's editorial in The Washington Post, his doctoral thesis Noua stîngă şi Şcoala de la Frankfurt ("The New Left and the Frankfurt School") is "a vitriolic sermon against Western values". The conclusion of Tismăneanu's thesis is that "Capitalism cannot be destroyed through vague dreams, dogmatic revolt, sudden transition and metaphysical studies. The only mean to overcome this statu-quo is through Socialist revolution, in which the working class, led by the revolutionary political Party, will play the leading role." Among those who criticized Tismăneanu's activities at the time was the philosopher Gabriel Liiceanu.

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

Selected works

Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel (Free Press, 1994)
Vecinii lui Franz Kafka. Romanul unei nevroze/The Neighbors of Franz Kafka. The Novel of a Neurosis (with Mircea Mihăieş; Polirom, 1998)
Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe (Princeton University Press, 1998)
Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath (with Sorin Antohi; Central European University Press, 2000)
Stalinism for All Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism (University of California Press, 2003)

External links

Template:Ro icon The final report of the Presidential Commission for Analyzing the Communist Dictatorship in Romania

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