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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 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 Leon Tismăneanu and Hermina Marcu Sohn. 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 Worldd War II, Leon 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. 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.

References

1. Vladimir Tismăneanu, "Amintiri din copilărie: Liceul 24 şi destinul nomenclaturii"

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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