HINDERING THE PROCESS OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN ROMANIA AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE SOCIAL PROTESTS IN THE EARLY 90s

Flavius Cristian MĂRCĂU

HINDERING THE PROCESS OF DEMOCRATIZATION IN ROMANIA AS A CONSEQUENCE OF THE SOCIAL PROTESTS IN THE EARLY 90s

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Flavius Cristian MĂRCĂU¹

¹ Lecturer, PhD., Contantin Brancusi University of Târgu-Jiu, Romania

Corresponding author: [email protected]

Accepted 29 March 2026

Available Online 15 March 2019

Abstract

THE CASE OF ROMANIA - AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 90S – SHOWED A PARTICULARITY AS COMPARED TO THE REST OF POST -COMMUNIST STATES IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE, DUE TO THE FACT THAT THE CHANGE OF THE TOTALITARIAN COMMUNIST REGIME DID NOT ACHIEVE THE QUIETNESS REQUIRED BY THE DEMOCRATIC CONSTRUCTION. IT IS A PECULIAR CASE IN THE FORMER SOVIET BLOC BECAUSE OF THE CONTINUATION OF THE SOCIAL PROTESTS AGAINST THE NEW PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT (FOLLOWING THE REVOLUTION OF DECEMBER 1989). WE WILL GIVE A CHRONOLOGICAL PRE SENTATION OF THE 1990 EVENTS AND WE WILL HIGHLIGHT BOTH THE NEGATIVE ASPECTS BEHIND THESE PROTESTS AND THE WAYS OF AVOIDING THEM.

Keywords

COMMUNISM DEMOCRATIZATION DEMOCRACY ROMANIA PROTESTS

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