Journal of Romanian Studies – serie

Contents Vintilă Mihăilescu A Subjective Centenary: The Peasant Footprint in Recent Romanian History Katherine Verdery Notes on a Century of Surveillance Dennis Deletant Shattered Illusions: Britain and Iuliu Maniu, 1940–1945 Maria Bucur The Queen Is No Sister: Three Faces of Marie of Romania Marius Stan and Vladimir Tismaneanu Stalinism and Anti-Stalinism in Romania: The Case of Alexandru Jar Revisited Reviews on: Katherine Verdery, My Life as a Spy: Investigations in a Secret Police File Cristian Vasile ed., “Ne trebuie oameni!’’: Elite intelectuale şi transformări istorice în România modernă și contemporană Ioana Em. Petrescu & Liviu Petrescu, Scrisori Americane (1981-1983), Ediție îngrijită, studiu introductiv, notă asupra ediției și note de Ioana Bot, postfață de Liana Vescan Bruce O’Neill, The Space of Boredom. Homelessness in the Slowing Global Order

The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova comparatively with other states and their ethnic majorities and minorities, and with other groups by investigating the challenges of migration and globalization and the impact of the European Union. Issue No. 3 contains: Alexandra Chiriac: Ephemeral Modernisms, Transnational Lives: Reconstructing Avant-Garde Performance in Bucharest Petru Negura: Compulsory Primary Education and State Building in Rural Bessarabia (1918-1940) Vladimir Solonari: Record Weak: Romanian Judiciary in Occupied Transnistria Delia Popescu: A Political Palimpsest: Nationalism and Faith in Petre Țuțea’s Thinking Cynthia M. Horne: What Is too Long and When Is too Late for Transitional Justice? Observations from the Case of Romania Brindusa Armanca and Peter Gross: Searching for a Future: Mass Media and the Uncertain Construction of Democracy in Romania

The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova comparatively with other states and their ethnic majorities and minorities, and with other groups by investigating the challenges of migration and globalization and the impact of the European Union.Issue No. 4 contains:Cosmin Sebastian Cercel: Reversing Liberal Legality: Romania’s Path to Dictatorship 1930–1938Ştefan Cristian Ionescu: Perceptions of Legality during the Antonescu Regime, 1940–1944Mihaela Şerban: Litigating Identity in Fascist and Post-Fascist Romania (1940–1945)Monica Ciobanu: Writing History Through Trials: The Case of the National Peasant Party Emanuela Grama: Regimes of Evidence, Property Restitution, and Power (Un)making in Postcommunist TransylvaniaDragoş Petrescu: Law in Action in Romania, 2008–2018: Context, Agency, and Innovation in the Process of Transitional JusticeSimona Livescu: Institutional Memories and Transgenerational Conflicts: The House of Terror and the Memorial of the Victims of Communism and of the Resistance

The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current relevance, and serving as a forum for junior and senior scholars. The journal also presents articles that connect Romania and Moldova comparatively with other states and their ethnic majorities and minorities, and with other groups by investigating the challenges of migration and globalization and the impact of the European Union.Issue No. 5 contains: Roland Clark – “The Shape of Interwar Romanian History” Lucian Turcescu and Lavinia Stan – “The Romanian Orthodox Church and its Financial Dealings in Post-Communism” Valeska Bopp-Filimonov - "Shaping, Questioning, Contradicting 'Bad Communism:' Aspects of Generational Memory in Romania after 1989"Amelia Miholca - "Re-Envisioning Cubism in Romanian Avant-Garde Magazines"Radu Parvulescu - “The Romanian Judicial Professions Database: An Open-Source Tool for Researching the Romanian Legal System”