Disaster Response by Ceauşescu’s Communist Regime in Romania: The 1977 Earthquake

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Karin Steinbrueck

Disaster Response by Ceauşescu’s Communist Regime in Romania

The 1977 Earthquake

Karin Steinbrueck

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English

Routledge
21 October 2024

Environmental economics; Global warming; Natural disasters; Social impact of environmental issues

Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the 1977 earthquake disaster response by the Ceauşescu communist regime, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest. It traces a history of one authoritarian government’s disaster response linking its decisions and ultimate inactions to contemporary public risk. The book begins with a stand-alone chapter to introduce readers to twentieth-century Communist Romania and contextualize the Ceauşescu regime’s response. It provides insights into how Radio Free Europe filled the information vacuum, how the political police, the Securitate, worked as first responders, and how scientific experts debated the best course of action. It examines how the regime requested specific foreign assistance and activated its Securitate abroad to encourage such, prioritized restoration of the economy, and ""encouraged"" domestic cash and labor contributions in the name of recovery. The book examines how the disaster response abruptly ended, leaving thousands of structurally unsafe buildings. It explains the contemporary seismic risk and post-communist mitigation efforts to reduce it.

This book will be of interest to students, researchers, and policy-makers in the fields of history, disaster studies, urban planning, politics, and those interested in communist-era Romania, Europe, and Eurasia; totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.

By: Karin Steinbrueck
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 530g
ISBN: 9781032632919
ISBN 10: 1032632917
Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 21 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Karin Steinbrueck is a modern European historian and is an assistant professor at National Louis University, Chicago. She has lived and worked in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Fulbright Scholar, Boren Fellow, and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipient. She lives with her family in Evanston, Illinois, USA.