EDITOR’S FOREWORD
EDITOR’S FOREWORD TO THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE EDITION
HISTORY AND A GLOSSARY
OF TERMS
THE MAIN ACTORS
REVOLUTION
NOVEMBER:
“THIS TROUBLESOME PRIEST”
One Sentence About the Truth...
DECEMBER:
COMMON TRIUMPH
We take control
Mission to Bucharest
First doubts
POLITICS, POST-REVOLUTION
Vatra Românească
The Platform of Friendship in Târgu Mureş
EARLY JANUARY 1990: AFTERGLOW
Alone, with my second doubts
The Hungarians enter politics
Meeting Iliescu
LATE J ANUARY:
END OF THE IDYLL
Consensus destroyed
One Colonel Ioan Judea
Vendetta
Through Incitement Against Equal Rights
FEBRUARY:
FATAL PROPOSAL
Distorted mirrors
EARLY MARCH:
THE WAR OF THE STATUES
The attentions of the army
MARCH 15: INTO CRISIS
The danger of enlightenment
MARCH 16:
THE PHARMACY INCIDENT
Preamble to the pogrom
The March sit-in
MARCH 19:
FIRST BLOOD
Noon: my transgressions
Late afternoon: invasion
Evening: “Start the treatment”
In the Name of Truth
The siege of the radio studio
THE CHRONICLE OF THE POGROM OF MARCH 20
Late morning: “Regrettable events occurred last night”
Early afternoon: “A beautiful demonstration”
Interlude: the army that never was
Late afternoon: “Europe is with us”
Early evening. “They have arrived, they’re here”
Late evening: “I know you, though we have never met”
AFTER THE POGROM:
EVIL COMPOUNDED
The evidence disappears
QUESTIONS, including those I often ask myself:
The Peasant Peace of Glăjărie
ABOUT THE LAST QUARTER
OF A CENTURY – BRIEFLY
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