Winter 2024

When it comes to Romania, political squalor is taken for granted. But the transition to democracy didn’t start out that way. In December 1989, Romania was the only Soviet bloc country where the revolution appeared to be both bloody and …

Unlike the other East European revolutions, the Romanian one was extremely violent. It resulted not only in the replacement of a despised ruling family but in the dissolution of all party and government structures. But the drastic nature of these …