Since the Romanian Revolution of 1989, he has been visiting his native country on a regular basis. Tismăneanu was in Bucharest during June 1990, witnessing the Mineriad, when miners from the Jiu Valley supporting the National Salvation Front put a violent stop to the Golani protest, an experience he claims gave him insight into "barbarity in its crassest, most revolting, form." Other sojourns included 1993-1994 research visits to the Communist Party archives, at the time supervised by the Romanian Army General Staff. Tismăneanu resumed his articles in the Romanian press, beginning with a series on communist leader Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, which was published by the Writers' Union magazine "România Literară" during the early 1990s. He contributed a weekly column in "Jurnalul Național", before moving to "Cotidianul", and was regularly published by other press venues: "Revista 22", "Idei în Dialog", and "Orizont". He later began contributing to "Observator Cultural" and "Evenimentul Zilei".