My Research

One of the reasons for my trip was to conduct research for my masters thesis on Romanian communism. I'll be writing my thesis over the course of the next year back in Indiana, but it will require sources that I can only get my hands on in Romania. Therefore, when I haven't been trying to find a place to live or solve banking problems, I've been doing research. I've spent a few days in the Arhivele Nationale ale Romaniei (National Archives) and today I went to the Biblioteca Nationala a Romaniei (National Library). For a history nerd like me, it is really exciting to see these documents first hand. On Wednesday, I read the minutes from a meeting in which the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party made a momentous decision in 1966. Right across from the Archives is Cismigiu Park, Bucharest's most famous park. Here is a picture of the Archives building from the park:



And here:

Is the signature of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu.