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Best books to learn The history of Romania, in order
Romania is a country that spent most of its history as somebody's borderland — Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian — and then compressed an extraordinary amount of the twentieth century into seventy years: Greater Romania, a fascist movement with a liturgical style all its own, a Holocaust the state denied for sixty years, the most invasive secret police in the Eastern bloc, and the only revolution of 1989 that ended in a firing squad.
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The history of Romania: books to read, in order
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- How should I approach learning the history of romania?
- Romania is a country that spent most of its history as somebody's borderland — Ottoman, Habsburg, Russian — and then compressed an extraordinary amount of the twentieth century into seventy years: Greater Romania, a fascist movement with a liturgical style all its own, a Holocaust the state denied for sixty years, the most invasive secret police in the Eastern bloc, and the only revolution of 1989 that ended in a firing squad.
- What's a good book to start the history of romania with?
- A strong starting point is The Romanians, 1774-1866 by Keith Hitchins. The ordered reading paths above show exactly where it fits and what to read next.