Despotic regime in Romania collapses

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.8.4: Romanian Writing and Culture.
Vol. editors: Calin Andrei Mihailescu (University of Western Ontario)

Domains

Changes of government, elections and reigns
Civil Wars, Revolutions and Insurrections

Dates

Date of occurrence 1989-12-22

Places

Romania (Location)

The Romanian Revolution, the last popular movement to overthrow the communist regimes in East-Central Europe, was a series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 (lasting from December 17th to the 25th) that overthrew the government of the communist president Nicolae Ceausescu. After a summary trial, Ceausescu and his wife were executed on Christmas day of 1989. The initial spark of the riots, on December 16th, was ignited in TImisoara, in the westernmost region of Romania, as a protest against the attempt by the government to evict a dissident, Hungarian Reformed pastor László Tokés. Larger and more violent protests erupted throughout the city the following day, and they were bloodily repressed by the …

Please log in to consult the article in its entirety. If you are a member (student of staff) of a subscribing institution (see List), you should be able to access the LE on campus directly (without the need to log in), and off-campus either via the institutional log in we offer, or via your institution's remote access facilities, or by creating a personal user account with your institutional email address. If you are not a member of a subscribing institution, you will need to purchase a personal subscription. For more information on how to subscribe as an individual user, please see under Individual Subcriptions.

223 words

Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Despotic regime in Romania collapses". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 01 February 2010 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=3889, accessed 23 November 2024.]

Save this article

If you need to create a new bookshelf to save this article in, please make sure that you are logged in, then go to your 'Account' here

Despotic regime in Romania collapses

Domains

Dates

Places

Save this article

Leave Feedback