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Comrade Baron: A Journey through the Vanishing World of the Transylvanian Aristocracy (Helena History Press)

By Jaap Scholten

Book information

Publisher
Helena History Press
Year
2016
ISBN
1943596026, 9781943596027
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
42 MB (44012400 bytes)
Pages
404\426
Time added
2023-12-26 19:35:29

Description

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 lorries. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and later Ceauescu 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 episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who survived communism 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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