Dennis Deletant

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Dennis John Deletant (born March 5, 1946 ) is a British historian . He was Professor of Romanian Studies and has taught at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies , University College London , Georgetown University and the University of Amsterdam , among others .

life and work

Deletant received his PhD from University College London (UCL), where he also received a nine-month postgraduate fellowship from the British Council in 1969 . He traveled frequently to Romania ; There he was declared a persona non grata in 1988 because of his publications about the regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu in the British press and on British radio .

After the Romanian Revolution , Deletant was involved in the organization of the British Book Appeal for the Biblioteca Centrală Universitară din Bucureşti in 1990 . Through this call, 400,000 volumes of books were made available between January and April 1990. From 1990 to 1999, as an expert on Romanian and Moldovan affairs, he was a leading member of the Expert Council on Know-How Fund established by the British government . In 1995 he received the Officer of the Order of the British Empire award for his services .

Deletant was also an observer of the Romanian parliamentary and presidential elections in May 1990 and September 1991, he also observed the local elections in February 1992, and again the parliamentary elections in November 1996 and presidential elections in November 2000. 1991-1994 he advised the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Moldovan Parliament and acted as an independent observer during the Moldovan parliamentary elections in February 1994 and March 1998.

Between 2000 and 2001, Deletant worked as a Rosenzweig Family Fellow on the study of the Fate of the Jews in Transnistria at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies , United States Holocaust Memorial Museum . From 2004 to 2005 he was a Senior Scholar in the Cold War International History Project (CWIHP) funded by the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC .

Deletant was Professor of Romanian Studies at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London and the University of Amsterdam (temporary transfer) between November 30, 2005 and September 22, 2011 .

Publications (selection)

Deletant's publications are among the standard works on the history of Romania :

  • Romania under Communist Rule. Center for Romanian Studies in collaboration with the Civic Academy Foundation, 1999, ISBN 973-98392-8-2 , p. 203. (English)
  • Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989. ME Sharpe, 1995, ISBN 1-56324-633-3 , p. 424. (English)
  • Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-65. C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1999, ISBN 1-85065-386-0 , p. 351. (English)
  • New Evidence on Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1989 . (English) (CWIHP e-dossier # 6, published as CD-ROM for the conference Romania and the Warsaw Pact , funded by the CWIHP in Bucharest, October 2002)
  • Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies: The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania. with Kieran Williams, Studies in Russian and East European History and Society, Palgrove, 2001, ISBN 0-333-71372-9 , p. 291.
  • Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944. Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke 2006, ISBN 1-4039-9341-6 , p. 379. (Eng.)
  • Various textbooks on the Romanian language such as "Teach Yourself - Get Started in Romanian" ( German  Romanian for self-taught beginners ) or "Romanian: An Essential Grammar"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dennis John Deletant. In: Facultatea de Istorie şi Filosofie, Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai.
  2. ↑ historicum.net , standard works
  3. ↑ Dennis Deletant is one of the leading authorities on the history of Romania since the 1930s. In: history.ac.uk , Reviews in History: Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944 , December 2009
personal data
SURNAME Deletant, Dennis
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deletant, Dennis John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH March 5, 1946