Research on the Romanian dimension of 1968 and its national and international consequences is scarce. The only comprehensive study on Romania in relation to the Prague Spring that also reproduces documents of the time is Retegan (2000).

An overview of the events leading to Romania’s unique position in 1968 is provided by Deletant (1998), Tismăneanu (2003), and Cioroianu (2005). For a selection of documents on Romania’s relations to the Warsaw Pact, see Deletant, Ionescu, and Buţă (2004).

For studies about Ceauşescu’s cult of personality see Fischer (1989), du Bois (2004), and Cioroianu (2004). An introduction to concepts of dissidence is offered by Arato (2000), Cangeopol and Petrescu (2000), and Zub/Cioflîncă (2005).

• Arato, Andrew. Civil Society, Constitution, and Legitimacy. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2000.
• du Bois, Pierre. Ceausescu au pouvoir: Enquête sur une ascension. Genève: Georg Editteur, 2004.
• Cangeopol, Liviu, Dan Petrescu. Ce-ar mai fi de spus: Convorbiri libere într-o ţară ocupată, ediţia a II-a. Bucureşti: Nemira, 2000.
• Cioroianu, Adrian. Ce Ceausescu qui hante les Roumains: Le mythe, les représentations et le culte du Dirigeant dans la Roumanie communiste. Bucharest: Curtea Veche et L’Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie, 2004.
• Pe umerii lui Marx: O introducere în istoria comunismului românesc. Bucureşti: Curtea Veche, 2005.
• Deletant, Denis. Romania under Communist Rule. Bucharest: Civic Academic Foundation, 1998.
• Deletant, Denis, Mihail E. Ionescu, and Viorel Buţă. Romania and the Warsaw Pact, 1955–1989: Selected Documents. Bucharest: Politeia-SNSPA, 2004.
• Delsol, Chantal, Michel Maslowski, and Joanna Novak, eds. Dissidences. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2005.
• Fischer, Mary Ellen. Nicolae Ceauşescu: A Study in Political Leadership. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1989.
• Retegan, Mihai. In the Shadow of the Prague Spring: Romanian Foreign Policy and the Crisis in Czechoslovakia, 1968. Iaşi: Center for Romanian Studies, 2000.
• Tismăneanu, Vladimir. Stalinism for all Seasons: A Political History of Romanian Communism. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003.
• Zub, Alexandru and Adrian Cioflîncă, eds. Cultură politică şi politici culturale în România modern. Iaşi: Editura Universităţii “Alexandru Ioan Cuza,” 2005.