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Date and place of birth: 8 April 1933, Bucharest
Educational background: 1951-1956, Faculty of History in Bucharest
Activity: 1957-1999, researcher, senior researcher (as of 1967) with the “Nicolae Iorga” History Institute; 1968 Ph.D. in history
1974: the “Nicolae Bălcescu” Award of the Romanian Academy for the paper Relaţiile agricole din Ţara Românească în secolul al XVIII-lea (“Agricultural Relations in 18th-century Wallachia”), Bucharest, Academiei Publishing House, 1972
1999: corresponding member of the Romanian Academy; 2006 full member |
Showed an initial interest in the economic and social history of late feudalism (17th-18th centuries) in Wallachia, then in World War II history and the history of the Cold War. He traced back the genesis of the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact and its effects on Romania, while also analyzing Romania’s position in the German-Soviet relations (1939-1941).
Major works: O istorie sinceră a poporului roman (“An Honest History of the Romanian People”), 3rd edition, Bucharest, Univers Enciclopedic Publishing House, 2002
Între Hitler şi Stalin. România şi Pactul Ribbentrop-Molotov (“In Between Hitler and Stalin. Romania and the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact”), Bucharest, Danubius Publishing House, 1991
1941. Hitler, Stalin şi România (“1941. Hitler, Stalin and Romania”), Bucharest, Univers Enciclopedic Publishing House, 2002
Schisma roşie. România şi începuturile conflictului sovieto-iugoslav (“The Red Schism. Romania and the Dawning of the Soviet-Yugoslav Conflict”), Bucharest, Compania Publishing House, 2007 (co-authored by Adrian Pop)
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