The Aristocrat

From Contents:

• Editor's word........................................................................................................................... 5

  Chronicle of a life and eulogy of a book, Acad. Ioan-Aurel Pop..................................................... 7

  About the authors...................................................................................................................................... 9

  Cuprins............................................................................................................................................... 10

  I. THE ORIGIN OF THE BĂLĂCEANU-STOLNICI LANDLORD ............................................................. 12

  II. THE REVOLUTION OF 1848, THE LITTLE UNION AND THE OVERTHROW OF CUZA....................................................................... 26

  III. THE DYNASTY OF ROMANIA............................................................................................................. 36

  IV. FROM THE GREAT CRISIS TO THE ROYAL DICTATORSHIP. THE LEGIONARY MOVEMENT AND MARSHAL ANTONESCU............................................... 58

  V. ROMANIA IN THE GREY CLOTHES OF STALINIZATION.................................................... 86

  VI. FROM THE "OBSESSIVE DECADE" TO CEAUȘESCU'S "OPENING" ................................................................................ 102

  VII. MEDICAL CAREER. FAMOUS DOCTORS, SPIES AND CROWNED HEADS........................................................................................ 114

  VIII. 1989 AND THE ETERNAL ROMANIAN TRANSITION............................................................................. 136

  IX. THE CHURCH OF DOMNIȚA BATALA. RELATIONSHIP WITH BOR AND THE PATRIARCHS OF ROMANIA...................................................................................................... 154

  X. HOW I MET THE WORLD. FROM VANISHED TRADITIONS TO TRAVEL MEMORIES. CHINA, JAPAN AND NORTH KOREA................ 180

  XI. PARADIGM SHIFT. FROM THE FRENCH REVOLUTION TO POST-DEMOCRACY. FROM DARWIN TO EPIGENETICS........ 200