1989
1989

Summary/Abstract: Why didn’t Romania acknowledge a negotiated transition between the conservative forces and the reformers as Gorbachev and oppositions? The events that took place in December 1989 should be compulsory inserted both in an international and a regional context: the complexity of Gorbachev’s strategy and the manner in which President Bush had the benefit of it, the pre-eminence of the social change professed by Hungary. The way Mr. and Ms. Ceausescu had been sentenced marks Romania’s impotence of negotiating its own transition. The process against Ceausescu must be regarded as a part of European revolutionary culture, masterly used by the actors of this coup d’état. Romanian public opinion was largely ready to accept the bloody horrors at the end of December 1989 being prepared preliminary by the mass-media that were very strongly opposed to the regime of Ceausescu since 1988.

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