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Article: Cold War Crucible: United States Foreign Policy and the Conflict in Romania, 1943-1953
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- Canadian Slavonic Papers
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- March 1, 2003
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Elizabeth W. Hazard. Cold War Crucible: United States Foreign Policy and the Conflict in Romania, 1943-1953. East European Monographs, No. CVXLII. Boulder, CO: Distributed by Columbia University Press, 1996. ix, 258 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $28.00, cloth.
Romania, the first of the eastern bloc nations to be overwhelmed by the Soviet tidal wave of hegemony in the early post-war years, also became the last to overthrow its Communist dictatorship. When the country finally emerged from the rubble of the Soviet empire to once again join the family of independent nations, it faced a long recovery from decades of Soviet political, cultural, and economic oppression. As Elizabeth Hazard ...