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Dennis Deletant (born 5 March 1946) is a British-Romanian historian of the
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. As of 2019, he is Visiting Ion Rațiu Professor of Romanian Studies at
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and Emeritus Professor of Romanian Studies at the
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES ) is a school of University College London (UCL) specializing in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, Russia and Eurasia. It teaches a range of subjects, including the histor ...
(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). Deletant had been ''
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'' in Ceaușescu's Romania, but on 31 December 1989, in the immediate aftermath of the
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ā€”there was still some sniper fire, etc.ā€”Deletant entered Romania at
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as the only Romanian-language speaker in a
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...
crew coming in from
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, joining another BBC team already in
Bucharest Bucharest ( , ; ro, București ) is the capital and largest city of Romania, as well as its cultural, industrial, and financial centre. It is located in the southeast of the country, on the banks of the DĆ¢mbovița River, less than north of ...
and, in what he was later to describe has his
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"fifteen minutes of fame," reported on the subsequent events.


Academic career

At SSEES, Deletant successively held the positions of Assistant Lecturer in Romanian Language and Literature (from 1969), Lecturer in Romanian Language and Literature (from 1972), Senior Lecturer in Romanian Studies (from 1988), Reader in Romanian Studies (from 1993), and Professor (from 1996). Besides his longtime affiliation with SSEES, Deletant served from 1990 to 1999 on the board of the British Government's ā€˜Know-How Fund for Central and Eastern Europeā€™. He was actively involved in that organization's work in Romania and in the
Republic of Moldova A republic () is a " state in which power rests with the people or their representatives; specifically a state without a monarchy" and also a "government, or system of government, of such a state." Previously, especially in the 17th and 18th ...
, was Rosenzweig Family Fellow at the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the
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in 2000 and 2001, and was Professor of Romanian Studies at the
University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...
(on secondment from UCL) from 2003 to 2010. He was made an officer of the
Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established ...
in 1995 and was awarded the
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with the rank of commander for services to Romanian democracy in 2000 by President
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of Romania. In 2016 he was awarded by President
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the
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, Officer rank.


Partial bibliography

* ''Romanian'' by Dennis Deletant and Yvonne Alexandrescu. (New ed.) London: Teach Yourself, 2003. * ''Romania under Communist Rule.'' Center for Romanian Studies together with Civic Academy Foundation, 1999, . * ''Ceaușescu and the Securitate: Coercion and Dissent in Romania, 1965-1989.'' M.E. Sharpe, 1995, . * ''Communist Terror in Romania: Gheorghiu-Dej and the Police State, 1948-65.'' C. Hurst & Co. Publishers, 1999, . * ''New Evidence on Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955-1989''. CWIHP e-dossier #6, published on CD-ROM for the conference ''Romania and the Warsaw Pact'', Cold War International History Project of the Wilson Center, Bucharest, October 2002. * ''Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies: The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.'' With Kieran Williams, Studies in Russian and East European History and Society, Palgrove, 2001, . * ''Hitler's Forgotten Ally: Ion Antonescu and His Regime, Romania 1940ā€“1944.'' Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke 2006, . *''British Clandestine Activities in Romania during World War II'', Palgrave, London and New York, 2016, *''Romania under Communism. Paradox and Degeneration Routledge'', Abingdon and New York, 2019


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Interview with Dennis Deletant--April 4, 2013
(audio file), eCommons, Cornell University {{DEFAULTSORT:Deletant, Dennis 1946 births Living people Historians of Romania 20th-century British historians 21st-century British historians People associated with the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies Georgetown University faculty Officers of the Order of the British Empire Officers of the Order of the Star of Romania Recipients of the National Order of Merit (Romania) University of Amsterdam faculty Naturalised citizens of Romania