The Representatives of Repression in Communist Romania: the Shrewd Investigator, the Sadist Torturer and the Balcanised Clown

The study draws a typology of the representatives of repression in Romanian communist jails and camps. This is not an external typology but it is based on the memories of convicts. Starting from this classification and drawing on the experiences of international memoir literature and historiography, the study offers an "anthropologic" understanding of the Romanian communist jails and camps until the end of the 1980s.

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