Democracy (Dis)Connected - Discourses Of Democracy And Of The Inter-War Period As (Mis)Guiding Lights In The History Textbooks Moldova and Romania
Democracy (Dis)Connected - Discourses Of Democracy And Of The Inter-War Period As (Mis)Guiding Lights In The History Textbooks In Moldova and Romania

Summary/Abstract: Debates about what societies should remember abound; usually these involve somewhat traumatic histories. However, for the relatively young democracies of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, the question of how democracy and societal experience with it are remembered might prove important for the future. This article will analyse the history textbooks of Romania and the Republic Moldova according to their representation of the inter-war period, which amounts, arguably, to the only “tradition” for Romanian and Moldovan democracy. This article will thus attempt to uncover the implicit meaning and historicization of democracy in Romania and the Republic of Moldova.

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