URSS – „paradisul popoarelor” în viziunea intelectualilor români între 1919 și 1959. I
USSR ‒ "peoples' paradise" in the vision of Romanian intellectuals between 1919 and 1959. I

Summary/Abstract: During our researching work into Romanian Academy Library we have found 19 books or travel diaries in which are significant information about Russian communism. These documents are especially about Russian contemporary history that depict unpublished information about Russian people and early communist policy. It is clear, therefore, that there are significant differences between Russian official documents and the Romanian travelers point of view. The benefits of interpretation from so very different range of information presented in this type of documents must be linked by the researching method itself. There are a number of interesting differences in the way that travelers understood historic events and how they were really interpret or misinterpret it. For actual researching field, few things are more important than reevaluating travel diaries or books, but we can choose to have rather a different approach about this very interesting domain the imagery itself. In this essay, each person have refined and reinterpreted the information because of its various structure, but before deciding how to draw right conclusions, we need to examine the differences between the two types of documents. Any of them official and private document interpretation were under the powerful influence of communist ideology. So that we have to tackle with prudence these kind of information. The range of subjects concerning within these documents in a broad sense of 20 century communist ideology is enormous. We hope that we have succeeded to extract the essential ethnologic and historic information from these books without to hurt Russian people feelings.

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