As part of our events remembering 30 years since the fall of Communism in 1989, we are proud to welcome at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City Professor Dennis Deletant of Georgetown University, the author of several ground-breaking studies about Romania under dictatorship, for a conversation about one of the great evils of the 20th century and the huge tragedies and disruptions it brought about. The British historian will also present his monumental study Romania under Communism. Paradox and Degeneration, published by Routledge in September 2018.
Dennis Deletant is currently Visiting Ion Rațiu Professor of Romanian Studies at Georgetown University and Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. For this service he was made an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1995. On the 1st of December (Romania’s National Day) 2000, he was awarded “Ordinul pentru merit” with the rank of Commander for services to Romanian democracy by President Emil Constantinescu. Between 2000 and 2001, he was Rosenzweig Family Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. He is the author of several monographs and volumes of studies on the recent history of Romania, among them Ceauşescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-89 (London, New York, 1996), Romania under Communist Rule (Bucharest, 1998), Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965 (London, New York, 1999), Ion Antonescu. Hitler’s Forgotten Ally (London, New York, 2006) and, most recently, Romania under Communism. Paradox and Degeneration (London, 2018).
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, 200 E 38th Street, New York 10016, NY
When: 22 March, 7 p.m.
To attend, please RSVP to news@icrny.org. Our events are free and seating is available on a first-come-first-served basis. We generally overbook to ensure a full house.
