Marius Oprea (; born 1964) is a

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and ...

n historian (specialized in recent history), poet and essayist. Born in Târgovişte, he studied history at the

University of Bucharest The University of Bucharest ( ro, Universitatea din București), commonly known after its abbreviation UB in Romania, is a public university founded in its current form on by a decree of Prince Alexandru Ioan Cuza to convert the former Princel ...

and he has a PhD with a thesis on the role and evolution of the Communist-era secret police, the

Securitate The Securitate (, Romanian for ''security'') was the popular term for the Departamentul Securității Statului (Department of State Security), the secret police agency of the Socialist Republic of Romania. Previously, before the communist regime ...

between 1948 and 1964 (''Rolul şi evoluţia Securităţii, 1948-1964''). Oprea currently works as a journalist and researcher at the Romanian Institute of Recent History (IRIR). He also serves as the president of the

Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania The Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania ( ro, Institutul de Investigare a Crimelor Comunismului în România) is a government-sponsored organization whose mission is to investigate the crimes and abuses conducted while R ...

Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania website, Marius Oprea, Dec 2009 He made his debut as a poet in the collective volume ''Pauza de respiraţie'' ("Pause for Breathing"), together with Simona Popescu, Caius Dobrescu, and Andrei Bodiu. Marius Oprea lives with his family in Braşov.

Published volumes

* ''Banalitatea răului'' ("The Platitude of Evil") * ''O istorie a Securităţii în documente'' ("A History of the Securitate through Documents") * ''Securiştii partidului'' ("The Party's Securitate Members") * ''Serviciul de cadre al PCR ca poliţie politică'' ("The Personnel Office of the Romanian Communist Party as a Political Police"; coauthors: Nicolae Videnie, Ioana Cirstocea, Andreea Năstase, Stejărel Olaru) * ''Ziua care nu se uită. 15 noiembrie 1987, Braşov'' ("A Day That Cannot Be Forgotten. 15 November, Braşov"; coauthor Stejărel Olaru) * ''Solo de trambulină'' ("Trampoline Solo", poems) * ''Moştenitorii Securităţii'' ("Heirs to the Securitate") * ''Chipul morţii: dialog cu Vladimir Bukovski despre natura comunismului'' ("The Face of Death: a Dialogue with

Vladimir Bukovsky Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Константи́нович Буко́вский; 30 December 1942 – 27 October 2019) was a Russian-born British human rights activist and writer. From the late 195 ...

about the Nature of Communism", 2006) * ''Bastionul cruzimii: o istorie a Securităţii'', 2008) * ''Sase feluri de a muri'' ("Six ways of dying", 2009)

References

External links

Official website, Institute for the Investigation of Communist Crimes in Romania
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