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Vladimir Tismăneanu (b. July 4, 1951 in Braşov, Romania), is an Romanian-American politologist and commentator on Romanian current affairs. He is the son of the Soviet commisaire Leonid Tismineţki, surnamed Ciungul. He graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1974, and obtained his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1980. He is a professor at Maryland State University. Tismaneanu is a specialist în political systems and compared politics. Editor of the East European Politics and Societies academic review and director of the Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies.

Prior to leaving România, his publications were supportive to the communist regime , .

Bibliography

• 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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1. An article by Tismaneanu in the UASCR review Convingeri comuniste (Communist convictions), reproduced by Tricolorul
2. A lua cu asalt cerul (To take the sky by assault), an article by Tismaneanu in "Viaţa Studenţească", a review of the UASCR (Union of the Associations of Communist Students of Romania) nr. 6, of Feb 6, 1974, reproduced by Tricolorul - nr. 652/17 mai 2006

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