It has been claimed by scholars, both within Romania and elsewhere, that Communist rule “saved”
Romania from the economic crisis that existed in the 1930s. A close analysis reveals, …

… To understand the case of post-communist Romania, we recognize that different religious
denominations and different political actors have simultaneously promoted different models of …

… This article focuses on daily life aspects during communist Romania, because it is one of
the most revealing cases of the post-communist countries. Romania had one of the most …

… The communist regime was Stalinist to the very end and the revolution was the bloodiest in
the region, but post-communist Romania experienced no resolute break with the past and no …

‘We went there… what did we see? I do not know if it was something obvious, it was the first
time that we took part in something like that. Anyway, we went there to do collective research …

This article explores the afterlives of communist everyday material culture by pitting
grassroots heritage practices against officially sanctioned museum narratives in post-communist …

In July 1971, one of the most non-conformist and Western-oriented leaders in the Soviet bloc,
made what appeared to many as a radical turn of his domestic policy: liberalization of arts, …

A close examination of an understudied European Union member state such as Romania
reveals that, since 1989, post-communist state and non-state actors have adopted a wide …

… A review of the dark history of the political prisons in communist Romania would be incomplete
without mentioning Aiud, Gherla, Targusor, Sighet, Galati, Craiova, Deva, Caransebes, …

The aim of our paper is to analyse the discursive construction of national identity during the
last decade of the communist dictatorship in Romania in the official newspaper of the …