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Comrade Baron [electronic resource] :a journey through the vanishing world of the Transylvanian aristocracy / Jaap Scholten ; translated by Liz Waters.

By: Scholten, Jaap, 1963- [author.].
Contributor(s): Waters, Liz [translator.] | Project Muse [distributor.] | Project Muse.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2016 2015); Budapest, Hungary : Order from Central European University Press 2015); Reno, Nevada : Helena History Press, [2016] 2015)Edition: First worldwide English edition.Description: 1 online resource (1 PDF (425 pages) :) illustrations, maps, portraits.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781943596041.Uniform titles: Kameraad Baron. English Subject(s): Hungarians -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History | Aristocracy (Social class) -- Romania -- Transylvania -- History | Transylvania (Romania) -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books. | Electronic books. Online resources: Full text available:
Contents:
Note to the English edition -- Comrade Baron : introduction -- part 1. They were counted -- part 2. They were divided -- part 3. They were found wanting -- Appendix.
Summary: In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and later Ceau escu the aristocracy led a double life: during the day they worked in quarries, steelworks and carpenters yards; in the evening they secretly gathered and maintained the rituals of an older world. To record this episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who survived communism and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.
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Translation of Kameraad Baron.

Issued as part of UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-401).

Note to the English edition -- Comrade Baron : introduction -- part 1. They were counted -- part 2. They were divided -- part 3. They were found wanting -- Appendix.

In the darkness of the early morning of 3 March 1949, practically all of the Transylvanian aristocracy were arrested in their beds and loaded into lorries. Under the terror of Gheorghiu-Dej and later Ceau escu the aristocracy led a double life: during the day they worked in quarries, steelworks and carpenters yards; in the evening they secretly gathered and maintained the rituals of an older world. To record this episode of recent history, Jaap Scholten travelled extensively in Romania and Hungary and sought out the few remaining aristocrats who survived communism and met the youngest generation of the once distinguished aristocracy to talk about the restitution of assets and about the future.

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