Ceausescu - From the End to the Beginnings

Foreword ix I. Arguments 15(16) 1. Historical argument 15(1) 2. Biographical argument 15(9) 3. Theoretical argument 24(7) II. The First Encounter 31(14) III. The Youth of a Dictator 45(18) The long mute Bucharest--New York 58(5) IV. The Caransebes Special Penitentiary 63(104) 1. The departure 63(16) 2. A topographical survey 79(3) 3. A sociological survey 82(35) 4. The hidden Caransebes 117(44) a. The strategy 117(5) b. The airport 122(6) c. The counter-investigations 128(8) d. Going to war 136(9) e. The ousted hundred 145(5) f. Exercises in fanaticism 150(6) g. Mass escape 156(5) 5. Provisional conclusion 161(6) V. The Precursors 167(228) A. The Stefan Foris Case 172(58) 1. An overlooked character 172(4) 2. Settling in 176(7) 3. The Foris--Gheorghiu-Dej conflict 183(15) 4. The arrest 198(32) a. A troubled prelude 198(3) b. Costly ambiguities 201(6) c. A decisive meeting 207(5) d. The kidnapping of a secretary general 212(4) e. The operation 216(14) B. The Provisional Leadership 230(19) 1. The origin 231(2) 2. The name 233(4) 3. The composition 237(12) C. The Ana Pauker Case 249(72) 1. The return 249(3) 2. An improvised mission 252(6) 3. The arrival 258(13) 4. Cancer 271(4) 5. The downfall 275(21) a. The accusers 278(2) b. The accusations 280(5) c. The defense 285(3) d. The ritual 288(3) e. Right-wing deviation 291(4) f. By way of conclusion 295(1) 6. Ana Pauker - A Victim of Anti-Semitism? 296(25) D. The Pãtrãscanu Case 321(74) 1. The context 321(13) 2. The secret meetings between Pãtrãscanu and Antonescu 334(5) 3. From Pantelimen to the Royal Palace 339(5) 4. The making of a criminal 344(8) 5. Heresies 352(12) 6. An endless investigation 364(6) 7. The trial 370(8) 8. A body in court 378(5) 9. The rehabilitation 383(12) VI. The Axis of Collapse 395(82) 1. Enthroning a new secretary general 395(6) a. The allies 395(1) b. A peaceful succession 396(1) c. Adapting to the role 397(2) d. The obituary 399(2) 2. The apogee: 1968 401(11) 3. Preludes to the final act 412(65) a.The obsessive decade 412(17) b.The Party, Ceausescu, Romania 429(8) c. Birth and death in Romania 437(18) d. Petition 455(13) e.The letter of the six veterans 468(3) f. The event, reactions 471(4) g. Two epilogues 475(2) VII. Running Away 477