Erasing the Identity of the Past. Effects of the “Systematization” Process in Nicolae Ceausescu’s Communist Romania
Erasing the Identity of the Past. Effects of the “Systematization” Process in Nicolae Ceausescu’s Communist Romania

Summary/Abstract: The present study focuses on the totalitarian aspects of one of communist Romania’s most destructive social and political phenomena: Nicolae Ceausescu’s “systematization” process. It establishes a political chronology of the “modernization epoch” and relies on social statistical data describing the constant destruction of the private, individual habitat during the seventies and the eighties years of the 20th century. Its main goal resides in presenting the full scale of social damage and dislocation generated by Nicolae Ceausescu’s anti-human, anti-democratic internal policy of general “urbanization”. Official political documents and encomiastic literary texts of the pre-1989 communist time, which emphasize the presumably “humanist” role of the “systematization” process, are being put in contrast with post-1989 historical recollections and photographic memories of the destructive effects of Ceausescu’s “modernization” age.

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