First Published in 2017. In this book the author shares his research and view that an inescapable feature of life in Romania under Ceau§escu was the ubiquity of the Securitate or the security police, known officially for much of the period as the Department of State Security of the Ministry of the Interior.

Chapter 1 Police Terror and the Imposition of Communist Rule; Chapter 2 The Securitate and the Removal of Opposition, 1948-1965; Chapter 3 From Terror to Fear: Nicolae Ceau?escu and the Securitate, 1965-1978; Chapter 4 Ceau?escu's Appeal to National Sentiment: The Case of Transylvania; Chapter 5 Cultivating Support: The Role of Bessarabia; Chapter 6 Compliance; Chapter 7 Dissent; Chapter 8 Central Planning as Coercion: Systematisation; Chapter 9 The Securitate and Repression, 1978-1989; Chapter 10 Epilogue;