December 2011: The Launch of IICCMER’s International Yearbook, History of Communism in Europe, vol. II
The current number approaches various themes related to the complicated relationship between intellectuals and totalitarian regimes, under the title “Avatars of Intellectuals under Communism” with the following chapters: I. Intellectuals and the Utopian Temptation; II. Arts and Culture; III. Communist Communities of Expert Knowledge; IV. Dissent.
Moreover, within the project entitled The Assuming of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania/Aufarbeitung Der Kommunistischen Diktatur in Rumänien, undertaken by Bundesstiftung zur Aufarbeitung der SED-Diktatur in collaboration with the Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes and the Memory of the Romanian Exile, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and the Romanian Cultural Institute, Dr. Bogdan Cristian Iacob, Secretary of IICCMER’s Scientific Council, presented the activity of the Institute and the Yearbook.
The project also included a lecture on the Romanian Revolution of 1989 and its consequences, delivered by Mr. Bogdan Murgescu, member of the Scientific Council of the IICCMER, and the screening of Die Letzten Tage der Ceausescus/The Last Days of the Ceauşescus, directed byMilo Rau and Simone Eisenring.