Winner of the 1995 Heldt Prize given by the Association for Women in Slavic Studies and a 1995 "Choice" Outstanding Academic Book.
Irina Livezeanu is Associate Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh.
"Irina Livezeanu's excellent book on interwar Romania should be assigned as compulsory reading to all those who, in their understandable disdain for the Communist abuses of the past forty-five years, yearn for the 'good old days.' ... Her masterful account ... highlights once again how hateful a place East Central Europe was to the Jews, and how the pre-Communist past should be anything but extolled or emulated by contemporary intellectuals and politicians."-Andrei S. Markovits, Austrian History Yearbook, 1997 "Only since the fall of Ceausescu have Romanians been able to attempt a reconstruction of their recent past and to interrogate it... Dr. Livezeanu's book is one of great relevance for an understanding of nation-building in the contemporary world. It is the first major work in any language on the efforts by Romanian governments to harmonize the divergent groups in the newly-annexed terrorities and to consolidate the young state."-Dennis Deletant, Slavonic Review "Irina Livezeanu has effectively demonstrated that there is need to re-think the interwar period in Romanian history and to free it from the terrible obfuscations perpetrated by the scholarly minions of the Ceausescu regime. She also counters the romanticized picture of interwar Romania painted by some dissident intellectuals suffering from Communist oppression. Here is a book that is a major contribution to the recent history of Romania, as well as to the historical literature on East European nationalism and nation building."-Istvan Deak, Seth Low Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University
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