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Bucharest Diary : Romania's Journey from Darkness to Light / Alfred H. Moses.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Moses, Alfred H., 1929- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moses, Alfred H., 1929-.
- Moses, Alfred H.
- Ambassadors--Romania--Biography.
- Ambassadors.
- Ambassadors--United States--Biography.
- Diplomacy.
- Diplomats--United States--Biography.
- Diplomats.
- Jews--Romania.
- Jews.
- Post-communism--Romania.
- Post-communism.
- Economic policy.
- Politics and government.
- Romania--Economic policy--1989-.
- Romania.
- Romania--History--Revolution, 1989.
- Romania--Politics and government--1989-.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 394 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, map
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2018.
- Other Title:
- Romania's journey from darkness to light
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- My introduction to Romania. Ceauşescu, Romania's Jews, Chief Rabbi Rosen, and me
- Looking back to explain present-day Romania
- The curtain rises
- Jumping in as ambassador
- Romania struggles. Building the case in Washington for the bilateral relationship with Romania and speaking truth to power in Romania
- Former president bush in Bucharest
- Negotiating Romania's treaty with Hungary
- Romania's president comes to the Oval Office
- Romania's democracy in action. A new year, step-by-step
- Washington pays attention
- A visit from Hillary Clinton
- Run-up to the general election
- Changing of the guard in Romania. New faces, old story lines
- More peace and more business
- A bountiful harvest
- Epilogue. Romanian history in the making.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Maps on lining papers.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 0-8157-5227-X
- 0-8157-3273-2
- OCLC:
- 1042317302
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