Dennis Deletant | |
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.jpg) Dennis Deletant in 2019 | |
| Born | March 5, 1946 |
| Citizenship | British, Romanian[1] |
| Occupation | Historian |
| Awards | Order of the British Empire National Order of Merit (Romania), Commander rank Order of the Star of Romania, Officer rank |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Georgetown University |
Dennis Deletant OBE (born 5 March 1946[2]) is a British-Romanian historian of the history of Romania. As of 2019, he is Visiting Ion Rațiu Professor of Romanian Studies at Georgetown University and Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES). He is the author of numerous works on the history of Romania including Ceaușescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-89 (London; New York, 1996); Romania under Communist Rule (Bucharest, 1998); Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-1965 (London; New York, 1999); and Ion Antonescu: Hitler's Forgotten Ally (London: New York, 2006).[3]
Deletant had been persona non grata in Ceaușescu's Romania, but on 31 December 1989, in the immediate aftermath of the Romanian Revolution—there was still some sniper fire, etc.—Deletant entered Romania at Giurgiu as the only Romanian-language speaker in a BBC crew coming in from Bulgaria, joining another BBC team already in Bucharest and, in what he was later to describe as his Warholian "fifteen minutes of fame," reported on the subsequent events.[4]
- ^ a b "Celebrated British historiographer of Romania receives Romanian citizenship". Romania Insider. 26 May 2022.
- ^ "CV: Dennis John Deletant". Faculty of History and Philosophy, Babeș-Bolyai University. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Dennis Deletant". Wilson Center. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Romanian Revolution through British Eyes/Dennis Deletant: 'Revisiting the 1989 Romanian Revolution: Some Personal Reflections' (chapter I)". 4 December 2012. Retrieved 29 October 2019.