OVER THE RUBICON

This edition of the "Over the Rubicon 1989 Timioara 1990" book is mostly compliant with the text of the first issue in 2011; some data were updated (based on the subsequently published bibliography), other data and details were removed without, thus, impacting the basic message for printing purposes.

Upon reading several major contributions of reputed publicists, political scientists or analysts, the English reader has become familiar with the Romanian Revolution of December 1989 with the week of fire (16-22 December 1989) in Timioara, in particular, when the Bega river city was in the European limelight. I shall refer to the following, among others: Stephen D. Roper, Romania: The Unfinished Revolution, 2000, Routledge, London, Peter Siani-Davies,The Romanian Revolution of December 1989, 2005, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York State, George Galloway and Bob Wylie, Downfall: The Ceausescus and the Romanian Revolution, 1991, Time Warner Paperbacks, Ivo Banac (publisher), Eastern Europe in Revolution: Katherine Verdery, Gail Klingman, "Romania After Ceausescu: Post-communist Communism", 1992, Cornell University Press, Ithaca; Sorin Antohi, Vladimir Tismaneanu, Between Past and Future: The Revolutions of 1989 and Their Aftermath, 2000, Central European University Press, Budapest; Almond's book, The rise and fall of Nicolae and Elena

Ceauescu, 1992, Chapmans Press, London;Andrei Codrescu, The hole in the flag, 1991, William Morrow and

co, New York; Richard Andrew Hall (with a PhD thesis, some fragments of which the Memorial of the Revolution of Timioara published in the Romanian language - Rescrierea istoriei revoluiei. Relaiile într-un regim autoritar i triumful revizionismului securist în România de dupa Ceauescu (Rewriting the Revolution:ALEXANDRU OCA Authoritarian Regime-State Relations and the Triumph of Securitate Revisionism in Post-Ceausescu Romania). Most of these are subjective contributions operating an interesting selection required to substantiate a previously designed theory.

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