Historiography and Politics in Communist Romania. The Nicolae Titulescu Case
Historiography and Politics in Communist Romania. The Nicolae Titulescu Case

Summary/Abstract: Nicolae Titulescu’s case and his rehabilitation done by the Romanian historiography in the years of the communist regime represent a model of recycling the past according to the needs of the present. It has become a certainty that, if needed, history could be rewritten according to the current ideological imperatives. This is the teleological approach of the historical writing where the past is seen in terms of the present. Without passing judgements of absolute value on the above mentioned aspects, Nicolae Titulescu’s presence in the main tensioned moments of the Romanian-Soviet relationships of the ‘60s-‘80s, after having been a taboo for the previous two decades, makes us think that Titulescu was firstly instrumentalized for ideological and political purposes, and secondly for reasons that focused on finding out the historical truth.

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