Stalinismus in den Köpfen. Zur kommunistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Rumänien
Stalinism in the heads. On the communist rule of force in Romania

Summary/Abstract: With the notion of "Stalinism in the heads", the author wants to describe two things: on the one hand the fact that a totalitarian system as stalinism created a certain state of the mind, a specific collective state of consciousness. On the other hand, he wants to point to the role of intellectuals in a stalinist system, their ambivalent role not only as victims, but also as an important support for the regime. The article analyses the early phase of the communist dictatorship, the classical stalinist period, as well as later forms of neo-stalinism under the communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu. He outlines similarities and differences between these different stages of the development of communist dictatorship in Romania and analyses the situation of national minorities, and the german population in special, in this context.

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