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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 school, 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 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

1. Vladimir Tismăneanu interviewed by Emilia Chiscop, 2005
2. 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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