Tismaneanu was among the first into the archives, and he uses new material.to shed light on the paradoxes of Romanian communism.” - Foreign Affairs “Masterful.the author succeeds in formulating the most convincing explanation for the incapacity of the Romanian communist elite to ever reform its Stalinist perspective.the reader is confronted with a story in which characters are not pale bookish descriptions, but real human beings.” -Christina Petrescu Politics & Society “Tempering specialist scholarship with sorrow and anger, Stalinism for All Seasons makes clear why it is that Romania has such difficulty becoming a normal country.” -David Pryce-Jones Times Literary Supplement (TLS)"A penetrating and insightful ‘deconstruction’ of a highly idiosyncratic offspring of the Stalinist era."-Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor, and author of The Grand Chessboard
Reviews “A thorough account of leadership battles in the Romanian Communist party. Embracing a long and complex period, this book will interest readers of twentieth-century history and anyone curious about communism and postcommunism. Finally, Tismaneanu identifies the RCP’s descendants among Romania’s current political parties and personalities. He examines important events in international affairs during Nicolae Ceau_escu’s rule (1965-1989)-particularly Romania’s role in the Sino-Soviet conflict, the Middle East, European communism, and European security. Tismaneanu discusses significant moments in the final six decades of world communism, including the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Comintern, Stalin and the Bolshevization of the Eastern European communist parties, and de-Stalinization. Situating the rise and fall of Romanian communism within the world revolutionary movement, Stalinism for All Seasons shows that the history of communism in one country can illuminate the development of communism in the twentieth century. Tismaneanu analyzes both the main events in Romanian communism and the role of significant personalities in the party’s history. Vladimir Tismaneanu uses documents that he discovered while working in the RCP archives in Bucharest in the mid-1990s and interviews with many of the party members from the Ceau_escu and Gheorghiu-Dej eras to tell the absorbing story of how RCP members came to power as exponents of Moscow and succeeded in turning themselves into champions of autonomy. It traces the origins of the once-tiny, clandestine revolutionary organization in the 1920s through the years of national power from 1944 to 1989 to the post-1989 metamorphoses of its members.
Stalinism for All Seasons is the first comprehensive history of the Romanian Communist Party (RCP).
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