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Vladimir Tismăneanu (b. July 4, 1951 in Braşov, Romania), is a Romanian-American politologist, professor at Maryland State University, and analyst on Romanian current affairs. In 2006, the Romanian president Traian Basescu named him president of the Presidential Committee for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania. The commission will present its report to the Romanian Parliament on December 18, 2006.

Early life and education

Vladimir Tismăneanu is the son of Leonid Tismineţki and Hermina Marcu Sohn. Tismineţki came to Romania as a Soviet Commisaire (surnamed Ciungul) and then worked in the propaganda structures of the Romanian Communist authorities. Hermina Marcu Sohn was trained as a physician.

They both fought on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War. During WWII, they worked with Ana Pauker at the Romanian section of Radio Moscow. After coming to Romania, Leonid Tismineţki became chair of the Marxism-Leninism department of the University of Bucharest, and adjunct director of the PMR Publishing House (which became later the Political Publishing House).

During school, Vladimir Tismăneanu was in the same class as Nicu Ceauşescu

Vladimir Tismaneanu graduated from the University of Bucharest in 1974, and obtained his Ph.D. from the same institution in 1980. He is a . 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. Vladimir Tismăneanu, "Amintiri din copilărie: Liceul 24 şi destinul nomenclaturii"
2. An article by Tismaneanu in the UASCR review Convingeri comuniste (Communist convictions), reproduced by Tricolorul
3. 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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