Reference Type: Book
Author: Levy, Robert
Year: 2002
Title: Gloria şi decăderea Anei Pauker
Translated Title: [Ana Pauker. The rise and fall of a Jewish communist]
City: Iaşi
Publisher: Polirom
Number of Pages: 344
Language: Romanian
Keywords: Jewish minority, history, Ana Pauker, communist era, Communist Party, biographies, anti-zionism, zionism, antisemitism, politics, diplomacy, emigration, aliyah, religion, discrimination,
Abstract: (En) In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. Robert Levy's new biography changes the picture dramatically, revealing a woman of remarkable strength, dominated by conflict and contradiction far more than by dogmatism. Telling the story of Pauker's youth in an increasingly anti-Semitic environment, her commitment to a revolutionary career, and her rise in the Romanian Communist movement, Levy makes no attempt to whitewash Pauker's life and actions, but rather explores every contour of the complicated persona he found expressed in masses of newly accessible archival documents.

(Ro) Traducere de Ioana Gagea si Cristina Pupeza. De cele mai multe ori, Ana Pauker e considerata marioneta comunismului sovietic in Romania, aplicind orbeste tehnicile represive de tip stalinist. Noua biografie publicata de Robert Levy aduce modificari la aceasta imagine, prezentind o femeie cu o forta remarcabila, dominata mai degraba de contradictii decit de dogmatism. Dezvaluind adevarata poveste a Anei Pauker, autorul nu incearca sa o reabiliteze, ci doar sa prinda conturul unei personalitati complicate, asa cum reiese dintr-o multime de noi documente de arhiva, inaccesibile pina acum