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Bucharest Diary
Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light
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2018
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An insider's account of Romania's emergence from communism control
In the 1970s American attorney Alfred H. Moses was approached on the streets of Bucharest by young Jews seeking help to emigrate to Israel. This became the author's mission until the communist regime fell in 1989. Before that Moses had met periodically with Romania's communist dictator, Nicolae Ceausescu, to persuade him to allow increased Jewish emigration. This experience deepened Moses's interest in Romania—an interest that culminated in his serving as U.S. ambassador to the country from 1994 to 1997 during the Clinton administration.
The ambassador's time of service in Romania came just a few years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the subsequent collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. During this period Romania faced economic paralysis and was still buried in the rubble of communism. Over the next three years Moses helped nurture Romania's nascent democratic institutions, promoted privatization of Romania's economy, and shepherded Romania on the path toward full integration with Western institutions. Through frequent press conferences, speeches, and writings in the Romanian and Western press and in his meetings with Romanian officials at the highest level, he stated in plain language the steps Romania needed to take before it could be accepted in the West as a free and democratic country.
Bucharest Diary: An American Ambassador's Journey is filled with firsthand stories, including colorful anecdotes, of the diplomacy, both public and private, that helped Romania recover from four decades of communist rule and, eventually, become a member of both NATO and the European Union. Romania still struggles today with the consequences of its history, but it has reached many of its post-communist goals, which Ambassador Moses championed at a crucial time.
This book will be of special interest to readers of history and public affairs—in particular those interested in Jewish life under communist rule in Eastern Europe and how the United States and its Western partners helped rebuild an important country devastated by communism.
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2018
ISBN-Print
978-0-8157-3272-3
ISBN-Online
978-0-8157-3273-0
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
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backcover1
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Table of Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
Ceaușescu, Romania's Jews, Chief Rabbi Rosen, and Me: My First Years in Romania, 1976-1989 No access
Looking Back to Explain Present-Day Romania No access
The Curtain Rises No access
Jumping in As Abassador No access
Building the Case in Washington for the Bilateral Relationship with Romania and Speaking Truth to Power in Romania: Winter 1995 No access
Former President Bush in Bucharest: Spring 1995 No access
Negotiating Romania's Treaty with Hungary: Summer 1995 No access
Romania's President Comes to the Oval Office: Fall 1995 No access
A New Year, Step-by-Step: Winter 1996 No access
Washington Pays Attention: Spring 1996 No access
A Visit from Hillary Clinton: Summer 1996 No access
Run-up to the General Election: Fall 1996 No access
New Faces, Old Story Lines: Winter 1997 No access
More Peace and More Business: Spring 1997 No access
A Bountiful Harvest: Summer 1997 No access
Epilogue: Romanian History in the Making No access Pages 359 - 364
Glossary of People and Places No access Pages 365 - 378
