Comrade Baron
A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy
by Jaap Scholten
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Pub Date Jun 05 2016 | Archive Date Nov 25 2016
Helena History Press | Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA), Members' Titles
Description
- shortlisted for the Bob den Uyl
- Prize for best travel book 2011
- Winner of the Libris History Prize 2011
In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into trucks.. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and later Ceaușescu the aristocracy led a double life: during the day they worked in quarries, steelworks and carpenters’ yards; in the evening they secretly gathered and maintained the rituals of an older world.
To record this unknown episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who experienced the night of 3 March 1949. He spoke to people who survived the Romanian Gulag and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.
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ebook: 9781943596027, $9.95
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| ISBN | 9781943596027 |
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