Monica Ciobanu
Biographic Data
| ID | 275459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Monica Ciobanu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Monica |
| FAMILY NAME | Ciobanu |
| SIGNATURE | CIOBANU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | State University of New York |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8860-5415 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania: Fluid Memories
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe
The article examines how the experiences of post-communist transitional justice policies could inform current controversies in the United States regarding its reckoning with the past. To lay the ground for this analysis, three facets of American exceptionalism—the dual state reality, the triumphalist myth, and the denialist myth—are identified as principal obstacles that have preempted any substantive reparations for the crimes against humanity p…
Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944–1964: Post-communist Remembering
This book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed experiences characteristic of the 1990s to more recent and state-sponsored expressions of historical remembrance through their incorporation in official commemorations, propaganda sites, and restorative and compensatory measures. Based on fieldwork dealing with Stalinist repression…
Writing History Through Trials: The Case of the National Peasant Party
This article provides a comparative account of two criminal trials that addressed the role played by the National Peasant Party (PNŢ) in national history. The focus is on the ability of legal trials to construct historical narratives. The first was conducted in 1947 by the newly-established communist regime and resulted in the legal ban of the party. In 2015, the narrative was entirely reversed in court. The PNŢ was presented as a fully democrati…
Law, History, and Justice in Romania: New Directions in Law and Society Research
This special issue of the Journal of Romanian Studies examines law as a social institution and the ways in which it intersects with the larger social, historical, political and economic world. The articles included here mostly explore the intersections between law, history, and justice, reject positivist and doctrinal analyses of law, and focus on “living law” and the complex interactions between law and social issues, including how law is create…
The Challenge of Competing Pasts
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Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from Twenty-Five Years of Experience
Taking stock of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores how these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictators…
Piteşti: A project in reeducation and its post-1989 interpretation in Romania
The purpose of this article is twofold: to provide a critical account of the Piteşti experiment and its significance within the history of Romanian Communism and to examine current public disputes relative to memorializing the Piteşi experiment that concern issues of legitimacy, collective memory, and identity construction. The main argument pursued here is that within the recent postcommunist politics of memory, one major prevailing trend is to …
Reconstructing the History of Early Communism and Armed Resistance in Romania
This article examines the role played by the armed resistance in Romania during the period of Sovietisation and Stalinisation (1944–1962) and its significance within the politics of memory and justice after 1989. One conclusion of the analysis is that opposing interpretations by political actors each in search of legitimacy correspond to attempts to manufacture plausible narratives of the specific historical discontinuity posed by the revolutiona…
Recent Restorative Justice Measures in Romania (2006-2010)
Because politicians have exploited recent attempts to implement restorative justice policies in Romania for political gain or to enhance their own legitimacy, these efforts have failed to promote reconciliation and to provide moral and legal redress for victims of the communist regime
Rewriting and remembering Romanian communism: Some controversial issues
This article examines the dynamic relationship between the two major dimensions of memory and justice in the context of post-communist countries: truth-telling and retroactive justice. This interdependent and uneasy relationship is illustrated by recent attempts at constructing a new historical narrative of the communist past in Romania in the wake of the de-secretization of the files of both the Communist Party and the communist secret police (S…
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe , by Ivan T. Berend
International Crime and Justice
International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines the field from a global perspective. It provides an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes and the theoretical perspectives that assist in understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of …
Communist regimes, legitimacy and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe
The purpose of this article is to clarify the relationship between forms of political legitimacy employed by communist regimes in East and Central Europe and subsequent models of revolutionary change in 1989. The conceptual basis of the analysis lies in Max Weber's theoretical framework of legitimacy. The four cases selected for comparison are Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The attempts of de-Stalinization and reformation of these party-s…
The End of the Democratic Transition? Analyzing the Quality of Democracy Model in Post-Communism
The problem addressed in this article is the adequacy of the recently developed quality of democracy model in analyzing post-communist democracies in the context of their recent accession into the European Union. In order to provide some clarification of this question, the conceptual framework is utilized in light of past and recent political developments in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Several procedural and substantive dimensions of t…
Criminalising the Past and Reconstructing Collective Memory: The Romanian Truth Commission
This article analyses the report issued by the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania in January 2007 within the context of the politics of memory and justice in post-communist Romania. Crucial aspects of the work of the commission, such as its history and formation, mandate and make-up, methodological and conceptual framework, and the political reactions that it generated are examined. This leads to the…
Reconstructing the Role of the Working Class in Communist and Postcommunist Romania
Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World , by Kristie Macrakis
"Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World, by Kristie Macrakis.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(3), pp. 551–552
Romania's travails with democracy and accession to the European Union
The defeat of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, Partidul Social Democrat) in the 2004 elections in Romania by the liberal centre – right coalition, the Alliance of Truth and Justice (DA, Alianta Dreptate si Adevar), and the country's membership of the European Union (EU) seem to indicate the end of a troubled post-communist transition. However, the reforms mandated by the EU in the justice system have not fundamentally altered the nature of the p…
Criminalising the Past and Reconstructing Collective Memory: The Romanian Truth Commission
This article analyses the report issued by the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania in January 2007 within the context of the politics of memory and justice in post-communist Romania. Crucial aspects of the work of the commission, such as its history and formation, mandate and make-up, methodological and conceptual framework, and the political reactions that it generated are examined. This leads to the…
Reconstructing the History of Early Communism and Armed Resistance in Romania
This article examines the role played by the armed resistance in Romania during the period of Sovietisation and Stalinisation (1944–1962) and its significance within the politics of memory and justice after 1989. One conclusion of the analysis is that opposing interpretations by political actors each in search of legitimacy correspond to attempts to manufacture plausible narratives of the specific historical discontinuity posed by the revolutiona…
Romania's travails with democracy and accession to the European Union
The defeat of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, Partidul Social Democrat) in the 2004 elections in Romania by the liberal centre – right coalition, the Alliance of Truth and Justice (DA, Alianta Dreptate si Adevar), and the country's membership of the European Union (EU) seem to indicate the end of a troubled post-communist transition. However, the reforms mandated by the EU in the justice system have not fundamentally altered the nature of the p…
Rewriting and remembering Romanian communism: Some controversial issues
This article examines the dynamic relationship between the two major dimensions of memory and justice in the context of post-communist countries: truth-telling and retroactive justice. This interdependent and uneasy relationship is illustrated by recent attempts at constructing a new historical narrative of the communist past in Romania in the wake of the de-secretization of the files of both the Communist Party and the communist secret police (S…
Communist regimes, legitimacy and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe
The purpose of this article is to clarify the relationship between forms of political legitimacy employed by communist regimes in East and Central Europe and subsequent models of revolutionary change in 1989. The conceptual basis of the analysis lies in Max Weber's theoretical framework of legitimacy. The four cases selected for comparison are Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The attempts of de-Stalinization and reformation of these party-s…
Piteşti: A project in reeducation and its post-1989 interpretation in Romania
The purpose of this article is twofold: to provide a critical account of the Piteşti experiment and its significance within the history of Romanian Communism and to examine current public disputes relative to memorializing the Piteşi experiment that concern issues of legitimacy, collective memory, and identity construction. The main argument pursued here is that within the recent postcommunist politics of memory, one major prevailing trend is to …
Romania's travails with democracy and accession to the European Union
The defeat of the Social Democratic Party (PSD, Partidul Social Democrat) in the 2004 elections in Romania by the liberal centre – right coalition, the Alliance of Truth and Justice (DA, Alianta Dreptate si Adevar), and the country's membership of the European Union (EU) seem to indicate the end of a troubled post-communist transition. However, the reforms mandated by the EU in the justice system have not fundamentally altered the nature of the p…
The End of the Democratic Transition? Analyzing the Quality of Democracy Model in Post-Communism
The problem addressed in this article is the adequacy of the recently developed quality of democracy model in analyzing post-communist democracies in the context of their recent accession into the European Union. In order to provide some clarification of this question, the conceptual framework is utilized in light of past and recent political developments in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. Several procedural and substantive dimensions of t…
Criminalising the Past and Reconstructing Collective Memory: The Romanian Truth Commission
This article analyses the report issued by the Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania in January 2007 within the context of the politics of memory and justice in post-communist Romania. Crucial aspects of the work of the commission, such as its history and formation, mandate and make-up, methodological and conceptual framework, and the political reactions that it generated are examined. This leads to the…
Reconstructing the Role of the Working Class in Communist and Postcommunist Romania
Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World , by Kristie Macrakis
"Seduced by Secrets: Inside the Stasi’s Spy-Tech World, by Kristie Macrakis.." Canadian Journal of History, 44(3), pp. 551–552
International Crime and Justice
International crime and justice is an emerging field that covers international and transnational crimes that have not been the focus of mainstream criminology or criminal justice. This book examines the field from a global perspective. It provides an introduction to the nature of international and transnational crimes and the theoretical perspectives that assist in understanding the relationship between social change and the waxing and waning of …
Communist regimes, legitimacy and the transition to democracy in Eastern Europe
The purpose of this article is to clarify the relationship between forms of political legitimacy employed by communist regimes in East and Central Europe and subsequent models of revolutionary change in 1989. The conceptual basis of the analysis lies in Max Weber's theoretical framework of legitimacy. The four cases selected for comparison are Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland and Romania. The attempts of de-Stalinization and reformation of these party-s…
Rewriting and remembering Romanian communism: Some controversial issues
This article examines the dynamic relationship between the two major dimensions of memory and justice in the context of post-communist countries: truth-telling and retroactive justice. This interdependent and uneasy relationship is illustrated by recent attempts at constructing a new historical narrative of the communist past in Romania in the wake of the de-secretization of the files of both the Communist Party and the communist secret police (S…
From the Soviet Bloc to the European Union: The Economic and Social Transformation of Central and Eastern Europe , by Ivan T. Berend
Recent Restorative Justice Measures in Romania (2006-2010)
Because politicians have exploited recent attempts to implement restorative justice policies in Romania for political gain or to enhance their own legitimacy, these efforts have failed to promote reconciliation and to provide moral and legal redress for victims of the communist regime
Reconstructing the History of Early Communism and Armed Resistance in Romania
This article examines the role played by the armed resistance in Romania during the period of Sovietisation and Stalinisation (1944–1962) and its significance within the politics of memory and justice after 1989. One conclusion of the analysis is that opposing interpretations by political actors each in search of legitimacy correspond to attempts to manufacture plausible narratives of the specific historical discontinuity posed by the revolutiona…
The Challenge of Competing Pasts
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Post-Communist Transitional Justice: Lessons from Twenty-Five Years of Experience
Taking stock of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the collapse of the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe, this volume explores how these societies have grappled with the serious human rights violations of past regimes. It focuses on the most important factors that have shaped the nature, speed, and sequence of transitional justice programs in the period spanning the revolutions that brought about the collapse of the communist dictators…
Piteşti: A project in reeducation and its post-1989 interpretation in Romania
The purpose of this article is twofold: to provide a critical account of the Piteşti experiment and its significance within the history of Romanian Communism and to examine current public disputes relative to memorializing the Piteşi experiment that concern issues of legitimacy, collective memory, and identity construction. The main argument pursued here is that within the recent postcommunist politics of memory, one major prevailing trend is to …
Repression, Resistance and Collaboration in Stalinist Romania 1944–1964: Post-communist Remembering
This book examines how the process of remembering Stalinist repression in Romania has shifted from individual, family, and group representations of lived and witnessed experiences characteristic of the 1990s to more recent and state-sponsored expressions of historical remembrance through their incorporation in official commemorations, propaganda sites, and restorative and compensatory measures. Based on fieldwork dealing with Stalinist repression…
Writing History Through Trials: The Case of the National Peasant Party
This article provides a comparative account of two criminal trials that addressed the role played by the National Peasant Party (PNŢ) in national history. The focus is on the ability of legal trials to construct historical narratives. The first was conducted in 1947 by the newly-established communist regime and resulted in the legal ban of the party. In 2015, the narrative was entirely reversed in court. The PNŢ was presented as a fully democrati…
Law, History, and Justice in Romania: New Directions in Law and Society Research
This special issue of the Journal of Romanian Studies examines law as a social institution and the ways in which it intersects with the larger social, historical, political and economic world. The articles included here mostly explore the intersections between law, history, and justice, reject positivist and doctrinal analyses of law, and focus on “living law” and the complex interactions between law and social issues, including how law is create…
Legitimation crisis, memory, and United States exceptionalism: Lessons from post-communist Eastern Europe
The article examines how the experiences of post-communist transitional justice policies could inform current controversies in the United States regarding its reckoning with the past. To lay the ground for this analysis, three facets of American exceptionalism—the dual state reality, the triumphalist myth, and the denialist myth—are identified as principal obstacles that have preempted any substantive reparations for the crimes against humanity p…
Between the Memory and Post-Memory of Communism in Romania: Fluid Memories
Political science (18 works) · Law (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Politics (14 works) · Communism (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Political economy (10 works) · Democracy (7 works) · Eastern European Communism and Reforms (5 works) · Economics (5 works)