Analyses Ceausescu’s regime and outlines emerging resistance and mass worker demonstrations in Brasov November 1987, the Timisoara and Bucharest uprisings and subsequent confused politics and violence. Includes a survey of sources.
Account by Reformed Church minister who resisted oppression of the Hungarian minority, and whose defiance sparked the December 1989 nonviolent protests in Timisoara.
Chapter 4, pp. 167-209, covers opposition and dissent from 1962 into the 1980s.
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[1] https://civilresistance.info/section/c-popular-resistance-communist-regimes/c-i-soviet-bloc/c-i2-soviet-bloc-1980-1991/c-i2b
[2] https://civilresistance.info/section/c-popular-resistance-communist-regimes/c-i-soviet-bloc/c-i2-soviet-bloc-1980-1991/c-i2c-0
[3] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1992/romania-turmoil-contemporary-history
[4] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1990/god-people
[5] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1996/hungarys-negotiated-revolution-economic-reform-social-change-and-political
[6] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1992/bulgarian-voices-letting-people-speak
[7] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/1992/velvet-revolution-czechoslovakia-1989-1991
[8] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2009/civil-resistance-czechoslovakia-soviet-invasion-velvet-revolution-1968-1989
[9] https://civilresistance.info/biblio-item/2009/civil-resistance-and-power-politics-experience-non-violent-action-gandhi-present
[10] https://civilresistance.info/section/introduction-nonviolent-action/1-theory-methods-and-examples/1b-strategic-theory-dynamics