Dennis Deletant

DENNIS DELETANT s‑a nascut la Norfolk (Anglia) in 1946; este profesor invitat al Catedrei de studii romanesti „Ion Ratiu“ de la Georgetown University, Washington, DC, si profesor emerit la School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, London. Primul contact cu Romania l‑a avut in 1965, cand a urmat cursurile scolii de vara de la Sinaia organizate de Universitatea Bucuresti.   A studiat in Romania in cadrul unei burse postuniversitare acordate de British Council in 1969 » ...mai mult si a vizitat apoi frecvent tara pana in 1988, cand a fost declarat persona non grata ca urmare a comentariilor nefavorabile la adresa regimului Ceausescu pe care le‑a facut in presa britanica. La sfarsitul lui decembrie 1989, a revenit la Bucuresti in calitate de consultant al televiziunii BBC in perioada revolutiei romane. In 1990, a fost invitat sa faca parte din comitetul consultativ al British Government’s Know‑How Fund, implicandu‑se activ in aspectele romanesti ale activitatii acestuia; pentru aceasta contributie i s‑a decernat Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 1995.   Cele mai importante lucrari publicate de Dennis Deletant sunt: Historians as Nation Builders. Central and South‑East Europe (coeditor alaturi de H. Hanak), Macmillan, London/New York, 1988; Studies in Romanian History, Editura Enciclopedica, Bucuresti, 1991; Ceausescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965–1989, Hurst & Co, London, 1995 (Ceausescu si Securitatea, Humanitas, Bucuresti, 1998); Romania sub regimul comunist, Fundatia Academia Civica, Bucuresti, 1997; Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu‑Dej and the Police State, 1948–1965, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1999 (Teroarea comunista in Romania: Gheorghe Gheorghiu‑Dej si statul politienesc, 1948–1965, Polirom, Iasi, 2001); Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies: The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania (impreuna cu Kieran Williams), Palgrave, London, 2001; Romania and the Warsaw Pact: 1955–1989 (ed. in colab. cu Mihail E. Ionescu), Politeia, SNSPA, Bucuresti, 2004; Hitler’s Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940–1944, Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2006 (Aliatul uitat al lui Hitler: Ion Antonescu si regimul sau, Humanitas, Bucuresti, 2008); British Clandestine Activities in Romania during the Second World War, Palgrave, London, 2016; Witnessing Romania’s Century of Turmoil. Memoirs of a Political Prisoner.   Nicolae Margineanu (ed.), University of Rochester Press, Rochester NY, 2017; Romania under Communism: Paradox and Degeneration, Abingdon, UK/Routledge, New York, 2019.