Velvet Totalitarianism

Claudia Moscovici is a Romanian-American writer who works on political philosophy and the Romantic movement. She has published short fiction in literary magazines, as well as scholarly books on Romantic art and literature.

• Chapter 1 AcknowledgementsChapter 2 1. IntroductionChapter 3 2. Romanian Stalinism and Post-StalinismChapter 4 3. Nicolae Ceausescu and his Rule (1965-1989)Chapter 5 4. The Secret Police, or SecuritateChapter 6 5. Birth Control Policies and the Romanian OrphanagesChapter 7 6. The Romanian Revolution of December, 1989Chapter 8 7. Writing PoliticsChapter 9 8. BibliographyChapter 10 Reincarnations of Love: a novelChapter 11 Part IChapter 12 Part IIChapter 13 Part IIIChapter 14 About the Author

Moving between extraordinary and ordinary lives, between Romania and the United States, velvet totalitarianism and relative freedom, dire need and consumerism, evoking her Romanian experience in the seventies, the emigration to the U.S. of her family in the eighties, and the 1989 uprising in Timisoara and Bucharest that marked the end of Ceausescu's regime, Claudia Moscovici offers her readers a multifaceted book - Velvet Totalitarianism - that is at once a love story, a political novel, and a mystery.