Deletant has written a number of books and articles on Romanian history of the twentieth century, including Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and his regime, Romania 1940-1944, published by Palgrave in 2006 and recently translated into Romanian.
Interview Themes
How Deletant came to be interested in Romania in the mid-1960s (2:10)
Deletant's approach to the issue of "backwardness" in Romanian historiography (4:59)
What changed in Romania over the period of Deletant's study of it (10:45)
British views of Romania in the 1960s and '70s (15:25)
On what Deletant wanted his British students to know about Romania (16:09)
On the legacy of British scholars like Hugh Seton-Watson and R.W. Seton-Watson and others (18:24)
The 1980s in Deletant's career and Romanian history (23:36)
Writing about the difficult periods of Romanian history as a labor of love for Deletant (28:23)
Can the model of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past) that we associate with Western Germany after WWII be "exported" to East-Central Europe? [on the role of the C.N.S.A.S. - National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Securitate] (33:52)
How Deletant came to get access to select Securitate (Romanian communist secret service) documents in 1993 (41:10)
On Deletant's own Securitate file (53:54)
Deletant's role as a Romanian expert giving interviews with the BBC (1:02:43)
Recent developments in Romania that are cause for concern (1:04:23)
Would there be a place for dissidence in Romania now? (1:07:00)
Was the 1989 revolution in Romania a real revolution? (1:08:40)
Deletant's sense of what scholars should be addressing now when writing about Romanian history and politics (1:10:08)
To access interview, click here: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33423
What changed in Romania over the period of Deletant's study of it (10:45)
British views of Romania in the 1960s and '70s (15:25)
On what Deletant wanted his British students to know about Romania (16:09)
On the legacy of British scholars like Hugh Seton-Watson and R.W. Seton-Watson and others (18:24)
The 1980s in Deletant's career and Romanian history (23:36)
Writing about the difficult periods of Romanian history as a labor of love for Deletant (28:23)
Can the model of Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming to terms with the past) that we associate with Western Germany after WWII be "exported" to East-Central Europe? [on the role of the C.N.S.A.S. - National Council for the Study of the Archives of the Securitate] (33:52)
How Deletant came to get access to select Securitate (Romanian communist secret service) documents in 1993 (41:10)
On Deletant's own Securitate file (53:54)
Deletant's role as a Romanian expert giving interviews with the BBC (1:02:43)
Recent developments in Romania that are cause for concern (1:04:23)
Would there be a place for dissidence in Romania now? (1:07:00)
Was the 1989 revolution in Romania a real revolution? (1:08:40)
Deletant's sense of what scholars should be addressing now when writing about Romanian history and politics (1:10:08)
To access interview, click here: http://hdl.handle.net/1813/33423