Stelian Tănase (b. February 17, 1952) is a Romanian writer, historian, journalist, political analyst, and talk show host. Events 1500 - Battle of Hemmingstedt. 1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori Year 1952 ( MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Romania ( dated: Rumania, Roumania A talk show ( American) or chat show ( Global) is a Television or Radio program where one person or group of people come together to Having briefly engaged in politics during the early 1990s, after the fall of the Communist regime, he has remained a leading figure of the Romanian civil society. Civil society is composed of the totality of voluntary civic and social organizations and institutions that form the basis of a functioning Society as opposed to the force-backed

A founding member of both the Group for Social Dialogue and the Civic Alliance, he was the latter's vice-president between 1991 and 1993. The Group for Social Dialogue ( Romanian: Grupul pentru Dialog Social, GDS is a Romanian non-governmental organization whose stated The Civic Alliance Foundation ( Romanian: Alianţa Civică, AC) is a Romanian Non-governmental organization In 1990, Tănase co-founded the political magazine 22, and, in 1992, he founded Sfera Politicii; he is a managing editor of both, as well as a regular contributor to various Romanian newspapers. Revista 22 ( 22 Magazine) is a Romanian weekly Magazine, issued by the Group for Social Dialogue and focused mainly on politics and Sfera Politicii ( Romanian for "The Political Sphere" is a monthly Political science Magazine, published in Romania since Over the years, he was the host of several talk shows (2 plus 1 and Orient express for Antena 1; Maşina de tocat for TVR 1; Zece şi un sfert, Zece fix, Tănase şi Dinescu, and 3 X 3 for Realitatea TV). Antena 1 is a Romanian television network, and one of the three top networks in the country with a market share of about 20% TVR1 ( TVR Unu, Televiziunea Românǎ 1 translated as Romanian Television 1 is the main channel of the Romanian public broadcaster TVR. Mircea Dinescu (b November 11, 1950) is a Romanian Poet, editor and Dissident. Realitatea TV is a Romanian news Television network. The channels is distributed by many cable operators in Romania and Moldova

Tănase is also vocal in the campaign to declassify all files kept in Securitate archives; in March 2002, he invited on his talk show a discussion his best friend, after it was revealed that the latter had been a Securitate informant who regularly furnished information on Tănase himself. See also Serviciul Român de Informaţii The Securitate ( Romanian for Security; official full name Departamentul Securităţii Statului ^[1]

Contents 1 Biography 2 Academia 3 Works 3.1 Novels 3.2 Studies and essays 4 Filmography 4.1 Directed 4.2 Screenplays 5 References 6 External links

Biography

Born in Bucharest, he graduated from the local university's Faculty of Philosophy in 1977. Bucharest ( Romanian: Bucureşti) is the Capital city, industrial and commercial centre of Romania. The University of Bucharest (Universitatea din Bucureşti in Romania, is a University founded in 1864 by Decree of Prince Alexander John Cuza Before 1989, two out of his first three books were banned by the Communist regime censorship apparatus. Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable harmful or sensitive as determined by a censor

Tănase became a public figure soon after the Romanian Revolution of 1989: in 1990, he took part in the Golaniad, the protest movement against former members of the Romanian Communist Party who had gained power during the Revolution. The Romanian Revolution of 1989 was a week-long series of increasingly violent riots and fighting in late December 1989 that overthrew the Communist regime of Nicolae The Golaniad ( Romanian: Golaniada from the word golan meaning hoodlum was a protest in Romania in the The Romanian Communist Party ( Romanian: ro Partidul Comunist Român, PCR was a communist political party in Romania.

After July 1991, Tănase sided with the group inside the Civic Alliance that called for the organization's transformation into a political party. A political party is a Political organization that seeks to attain and maintain political power within Government, usually by participating in electoral As a member of the newly-created Civic Alliance Party inside the opposition alliance (the Romanian Democratic Convention), he was elected to the Chamber of Deputies for the 1992-1996 legislature, representing the city of Bucharest. The Romanian Democratic Convention (Romanian Convenţia Democrată Română, CDR was an electoral alliance of several political parties of Romania, active from early The Chamber of Deputies (Camera Deputaţilor is the lower house in Romania 's Bicameral parliament. ^[2] He was vice-president of the Parliamentary Committee for Foreign Affairs (until April 1995) and member of the Special Committee for the Advancing a Legislative Proposal Regarding the Functioning of Political Parties.

In 2006, he was chosen member of the Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania by its president, Vladimir Tismăneanu. The Presidential Commission for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Romania (Comisia Prezidenţială pentru Analiza Dictaturii Comuniste din România also known as the Vladimir Tismăneanu (b July 4, 1951) is a Romanian and American political scientist sociologist and professor at the University of Maryland The Commission was founded by President Traian Băsescu in order to provide for an official and academic basis for condemning the Romanian communist regime. The President of Romania is the Head of state of Romania. The President is directly elected by a Two-round system for a five-year term (since 2004 Traian Băsescu (born November 4 1951) is a Romanian politician and former Merchant Navy officer This took place on December 18, 2006, when the President presented the Commission's 660 pages report to Parliament, making Romania the first Eastern Bloc country to officially condemn its communist regime. Events 218 BC - Second Punic War: Battle of the Trebia - Hannibal 's Carthaginian forces defeat those of the Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. The Parliament of Romania is made up of two chambers The Chamber of Deputies The Senate Prior to During the Cold War, the term Communist Bloc (or Soviet Bloc) was used to refer to the Soviet Union and countries it either controlled or that were ^[3][4][5]

Academia

In 1996, he was granted a Ph.D. in political sociology by the University of Bucharest. "PhD" redirects here for other uses see PhD (disambiguation. A visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles Sociology Department in 1997, he currently teaches at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Political Sciences. A visiting scholar, in the world of Academia, is a scholar from an institution who visits a receiving university that hosts him where he or she is projected to teach ( visiting The University of California Los Angeles (generally known as UCLA) is a public research university located in Westwood Los Angeles, California, United

Tănase was the recipient of several fellowships: he was Visiting Short-Term Fellow (1993) and Visiting Scholar (1994) at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, granted a Visiting Short Term Collaborative research project at the University of California, Los Angeles (with Gail Kligman in 1996); a Fulbright scholar, post-Ph. The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (or Wilson Center) (located in Washington D The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate D. grant, The New School for Social Research (1997); Visiting Short Term Scholar at the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. (1998). This is about the university in New York; for other uses see New School (disambiguation. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is a national institution located adjacent to The National Mall in Washington D Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D

He has held conferences in Rome, Paris, Oslo, Vienna, Budapest, Washington, and also at prestigious American universities: the University of California, Los Angeles, Berkeley University, Stanford University, New York University, Columbia University, the University of Maryland, and The New School for Social Research. Rome ( Roma ˈroma Roma is the capital city of Italy and Lazio, and is Italy's largest and most populous city with more than 2 Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city (called Christiania from 1624 to 1878 and Kristiania from 1878 to 1924 is the Capital and largest city of Norway. Vienna ( in Wien; see also other names) is the Capital of Austria, and is also one of the nine States of Austria. Budapest ( also /ˈbʊ-/) is the capital city of Hungary. As the largest city of Hungary it serves as the country's principal Political, Washington ( is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University or simply Stanford, is a private Research university located in New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. Columbia University is a private University in the United States and a member of the Ivy League. The University of Maryland College Park (often referred to as The University of Maryland UMD, UMCP or simply Maryland) is a public research This is about the university in New York; for other uses see New School (disambiguation.

Works

Novels

• 1982 - Luxul melancoliei ("The Luxury of Melancholy")
• 1990 - Corpuri de iluminat ("Lighting Bodies"), written 1985-1987
• 1995 - Playback
• 2002 - Acasă se vorbeşte în şoaptă, Dosar & jurnal din anii târzii ai dictaturii ("We Whisper at Home. A File & a Diary from the Late Years of Dictatorship"); contains excerpts from his file at the political police Securitate

Studies and essays

• 1993 - Şocuri şi crize ("Shocks and Crises"), collected political articles
• 1995 - Ora oficială de iarnă ("Official Winter Time"), diary 1986-1990
• 1996 - Sfidarea memoriei. See also Serviciul Român de Informaţii The Securitate ( Romanian for Security; official full name Departamentul Securităţii Statului Convorbiri cu Alexandru Paleologu ("Defying Memory. Conversations with Alexandru Paleologu")
• 1996 - Revoluţia ca eşec. Alexandru Paleologu ( March 14, 1919 - September 2, 2005) was a Romanian essayist literary critic diplomat and politician Elite şi societate ("Revolution as Failure. Elites and Society"), political studies
• 1997 - Anatomia mistificării. Procesul Noica-Pillat ("Anatomy of Mystification. The Noica-Pillat Trial")
• 1998 - LA vs NY. "Noica" redirects here For the politician see Nicolae Noica --> Constantin Noica (/kon Jurnal american ("LA vs NY. American Diary")
• 1998 - Elite şi societate. Guvernarea Gheorghiu-Dej (1948-1965) ("Elites and Society. The Gheorghiu-Dej Government")
• 1999 - Miracolul revoluţiei. Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej (born Gheorghe Gheorghiu; November 8 1901, Bârlad - March O istorie politică a căderii regimurilor comuniste ("The Miracle of Revolution. A Political History of the Fall of Communist Regimes")
• 2004 - Zei şi semizei la început de secol ("Gods and Demigods at the Dawn of the Century")
• 2005 - Clienţii lu' tanti Varvara. Poveşti clandestine ("Aunt Varvara's Clients. Clandestine Stories")

Filmography

Directed

• 1991 - Piaţa Univesităţii - România ("University Square - Romania"), documentary

Screenplays

• 1999 - Asaltul cerului ("The Siege of the Sky"), documentary for Antena 1; 6 episodes
• 2000 - Struma, documentary for Antena 1
• 2004 - Vizionarii ("The Foreseers"), portraits of 19th and 20th century Romanian politicians (Mihail Kogălniceanu, Ion Brătianu, Nicolae Iorga, Nicolae Titulescu, Iuliu Maniu), documentary for Realitatea TV; 5 episodes
• 2004 - Istoria alegerilor în România secolului XX ("The History of Elections in 20th century Romania"), documentary for Realitatea TV; 6 episodes
• 2006 - Dinastia ("The Dinasty"), portraits of the four kings of the Romanians, documentary for the Romanian Television Company; 21 episodes

References

• (Romanian) Biography at the Polirom site

External links

• The Renegade Istrati, excerpt from Aunt Varvara's Clients, translated by Alistair Ian Blyth
• Sfera politicii

Polirom or Editura Polirom ("Polirom" Publishing House is a Romanian Publishing house with a tradition in editing international literature classics

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