IICCMER’s Yearbook: Repression and Social Control in Communist Romania, Polirom Publishing House, 2011
The Yearbook brings together contributions dealing with the following topics: the institutions and agents instrumental to repression during the communist period; the methods of mobilization, co-option, and social control; and, the practices of the communization of culture and science in Romania. Moreover, the Yearbook contains case studies that offer relevant data on the anti-communist resistance, the victims of repression, and the situation of religious communities under the communist regime. The new issue provides an interdisciplinary and nuanced inquiry on the consequences of communist rule over Romanian society.
Among the authors are: Vladimir Tismăneanu, Paul Hollander, Smaranda Vultur, Cristian Vasile, Bogdan C. Iacob, Mihail Neamțu, Andi Mihalache, Silviu B. Moldovan, Liviu Pleșa, Luciana M. Jinga, Dumitru Lăcătușu, etc. The contributions in the Yearbook make use of archival documents that have only recently been available to scholars, thus providing a novel insights on the various topics analyzed.
The Institute has so far published four issues of its Yearbook in Romanian, which focused on the following themes: Why Communism Must be Condemned (vol. I, 2006), Communist Elites before and after 1989 (vol. II, 2007), Party and State Structures during the Communist Regime (vol. III, 2008), Intellectuals and the Communist Regime: Stories of a Relationship (vol. IV, 2009).
Starting with 2010, the Institute also published two issues of its international yearbook, History of Communism in Europe, namely Politics of Memory in Post-Communist Europe (vol. I, 2010) and Avatars of Intellectuals under Communism (vol. II, 2011).