Heroes and Victims: Remembering War in Twentieth-Century Romania

by Maria Bucur

Book Overview

Heroes and Victims explores the cultural power of war memorials in 20th-century Romania through two world wars and a succession of radical political changes--from attempts to create pluralist democratic political institutions after World War I to shifts toward authoritarian rule in the 1930s, to military dictatorships and Nazi occupation, to communist dictatorships, and finally to pluralist democracies with populist tendencies. Examining...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025322134X
• ISBN13: 9780253221346
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher