inflation as well as unemployment increased substantially. The austerity measures, which by 1995 included a decrease in social spending, led to an increase in poverty. The neoliberal reforms were accelerated after the Democratic Convention won the 1996 elections, the government using its prerogatives to pass a package of laws, removing subsidies, passing reforms on unemployment benefits and greatly increasing the number of privatised companies. See also 1989 Moldovan civil unrest 8888 Uprising Die Wende Dissolution of the Soviet Union End of Communism in Hungary (1989) Fall of communism in Albania Fall of the Berlin Wall List of books about the Romanian Revolution List of films about the Romanian Revolution List of massacres in Romania Mongolian Revolution of 1990 People Power Revolution Revolutions of 1989 Romanian anti-communist resistance movement Singing Revolution 1989 Tiananmen Square protests Velvet Revolution Videograms of a Revolution References Citations Sources Further reading Mark Almond, Uprising: Political Upheavals that have Shaped the World, 2002. Mitchell Beazley, London. Timothy Garton Ash (1990), The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of 1989 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague, New York: Random House, . Dennis Deletant, Romania under communist rule (1999). Centre for Romanian Studies in cooperation with the Civic Academy Foundation, (Iași, Romania; Portland, Oregon), . Gives a detailed account of the events in December 1989 in Timișoara. Jeffrey A. Engel (2017), When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War, New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, . Domnița Ștefănescu, Cinci ani din Istoria României ("Five years in the history of Romania"), 1995. Mașina de Scris, Bucharest. External links Article on justice failing for 942 killed in Revolution on eve of 20th anniversary Video of Nicolae Ceaușescu's final speech in Republican Square Anonymous Photo Essay about the Romanian Revolution of 1989 TV broadcasts from 22 and 23 December 1989 Live TV Broadcast from 22 December 1989 on Hungarian TV (with English subtitles) The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 Academic Article on Feature Films about 1989 Academic Article on Documentaries about 1989 1980s coups d'état and coup attempts 1989 in politics 1989 in Romania 20th-century revolutions Assassinations Civil wars involving the states and peoples of Europe Conflicts in 1989 Decommunization 20th century in Bucharest Massacres in Romania Protests in Romania Rebellions in Romania Socialist Republic of Romania December 1989 events in Europe Rebellions in the Soviet Union