Romanian revolution. Book recommendations.

[Kaka Tim]

Looking for a good book or detailed accounts about the fall of ceausescau. Both Personal stories and big picture. Cheers in advance!

 

[Kaka Tim]

urban hive mind - you have failed me!

 

[belboid]

I only know of one. I am dubious about it

 

[Kaka Tim]

I only know of one. I am dubious about it

yeah - i saw that one .... would've thought George would have been a ceaucescau fanboy tbh ...

 

[Idris2002]

I think Chris Hitchens wrote some eyewitness reports at the time.

 

[tim]

Wasn't it a preemptive coup rather than a revolution? I remember it happened on Christmas Day and the only media outlet giving it serious coverage was Radio Moscow.

 

[ash]

Wasn't it a preemptive coup rather than a revolution. I remember it happened on Christmas Day and the only media outlet giving it serious coverage was Radio Moscow.

Sounds like a bit of both we were there (Bucharest) earlier this year. Out cab driver gave us a summary. They were on a balcony meeting crowds who turned ugly. They escaped to a roof and called a helicopter to rescue them. They were whisked away - the army took them to another town and executed them. I do remember watching the executions on TV Xmas day.
We visited (6%) of the palace they had made and almost finished before they were killed - crazy dictator stuff. Every art student in the country spent a year working on it. The tour took 2 hours!

 

[Idris2002]

Wasn't it a preemptive coup rather than a revolution. I remember it happened on Christmas Day and the only media outlet giving it serious coverage was Radio Moscow.

There was video at the time of some military leader saying "comrades, the national salvation front has been functioning for six months", i.e. it wasn't a spontaneous uprising.

I asked a couple of Romanian colleagues about it a few years ago and they said that this story comes back into Romanian media every few years or so, but nobody cares.