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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police
Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games and went on to collect three gold medals in performances which influenced the sport for generations to come, cementing Nadia's place as a sporting legend. However, as the communist authorities in Romania sought an iron grip over its highest-profile athletes, Nadia and her trainers were subjected to surveillance from the Securitate, the Romanian secret police. Drawing on 25,000 secret police archive pages, countless ...
Rîmaru
In September 1971 Ion Rimaru stood trial for the murder of several women, accused of 23 very serious offences over a period of one year from May 1970: murders committed in extremely aggravated circumstances, with cruelty, premeditation, bestiality and sadism in four cases; attempted murders in six cases; rapes and attempted rapes; theft.
Nadia și Securitatea
En 1976, aux Jeux olympiques de Montréal, Nadia est devenue le symbole de la perfection en gymnastique. Par admiration, elle a fait l'objet de films et de documentaires artistiques, de biographies, de romans et même de livres pour enfants. Mais Nadia, qui est devenue une partie de la richesse nationale de la Roumanie socialiste, fait encore l'objet d'écrits dans l'ombre, et ses "admirateurs", qui rassemblent le matériel documentaire pour un étrange roman, mi-horreur, mi-politique, sont ceux qui font partie de son monde : entraîneurs, fonctionnaires fédéraux, médecins, infirmières, coéquipiers... Ils ont tous suivi ses moindres gestes, ses moindres mots et ses moindres pensées et,...
Nadia Comaneci dans l'oeil de la police secrète
" Je savais que j'étais suivie, mais je n'ai jamais réalisé l'ampleur de cette surveillance. " Nadia Comaneci Le nouveau livre de Stejarel Olaru porte sur la plus grande gymnaste de tous les temps, Nadia Comaneci, la première athlète au monde à avoir remporté la note parfaite de 10, lors de Jeux olympiques (Jeux olympiques d'été de Montréal, 1976). Nadia Comăneci est née en 1961 dans le nord-est de la Roumanie. Elle est lauréate de neuf médailles aux Jeux olympiques et de quatre aux Championnats du monde. Elle vit aux États-Unis. L'auteur présente les débuts de Nadia en gymnastique, visitant les premiers titres importants qu'elle a remportés, culminant avec la victoire du t...
Art, Religion and Resistance in (Post-)Communist Romania
This book illuminates the interconnections between politics and religion through the lens of artistic production, exploring how art inspired by religion functioned as a form of resistance, directed against both Romanian national communism (1960-1989) and, latterly, consumerist society and its global market. It investigates the critical, tactical and subversive employments of religious motifs and themes in contemporary art pieces that confront the religious ‘affair’ in post-communist Romania. In doing so, it addresses a key gap in previous scholarship, which has paid little attention to the relationship between religious art and political resistance in communist Central and South-East Europe.
Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
This book examines transitional justice in Eastern Europe and the former USSR, exploring their attempts to come to terms with the gross human abuses which characterized their communist past. It considers transitional justice in all its aspects, explaining why different countries adopted different models and how successful they have been.
Marginal Spaces and Cultures of Dissent in Socialist Romania's Black Sea
This book analyzes two Romanian villages – 2 Mai and Vama Veche – as spaces of relative freedom during the last decades of socialist rule. This microhistorical study refutes simplistic views of the communist past which focus on political figures and events, and instead explores ordinary people and everyday life. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it considers a broad range of sources, including official Communist Party documents, secret police files, personal memoirs, oral history interviews, ethnographic films, songs, and artistic performances. This book intertwines three narrative threads: that of the visitors (mainly members of the Romanian intelligentsia, young people, and hippies); that of the local inhabitants; and that of 'authority' (local and central state agents actively engaged in surveillance and supervision). In doing so, it interrogates the spectrum of consent/dissent and resistance/collaboration hitherto neglected in scholarship.
Nadia Comaneci y la policía secreta. Historias de la guerra fría
El nuevo libro de Stejarel Olaru trata sobre una de las mejores atletas de todos los tiempos, Nadia Comaneci, la primera gimnasta del mundo en lograr la puntuación perfecta ¡10! Lo consiguió durante los Juegos Olímpicos de Montreal, en 1976. La medallista olímpica, mundial y europea nació en 1961 en el noreste de Rumanía y ahora vive en Estados Unidos. El autor presenta los inicios de Nadia en la gimnasia, desde sus primeros títulos importantes hasta los Juegos Olímpicos de Montreal. A lo largo del libro se describe con meticulosidad la red de informantes creada dentro del equipo olímpico rumano, promovida por la inteligencia al servicio del Partido Comunista. Esta red de informantes reveló los métodos abusivos de la pareja de entrenadores Karolyi, así como los graves conflictos entre entrenadores y gimnastas, en particular entre Nadia y Bela Karolyi. Incluso en estas condiciones, la «Diosa de Montreal» continuó su excepcional carrera, que culminó con su exitosa participación en los Juegos Olímpicos de Moscú en 1980, a pesar de los esfuerzos de los árbitros controlados por la URSS para reducir sus posibilidades de subir al podio.
Above the Abyss
The book focuses on the threat to free self-development and the effort to ward off a perceived threat of extinction as well as the development of self-preservation forces. The challenges for ethnic and religious minorities in the 19th–21st centuries are explained and unfolded against the historical background that serves as a frame of reference. The royal privileges granted in medieval Hungary were abolished in the mid-19th century. The German-speaking people’s church (Saxones) in Transylvania founded on this had to reorient itself, although a pioneer region of religious freedom had established itself behind the “Ottoman Curtain”. Since the reception of the Reformation, the “Saxone...
