De la închisoarea Sighet la Academia R.S. România Studiu de caz: Constantin C.Giurescu
From Sighet Prison to the Academy of the Romanian Socialist Republic. Case Study: Constantin C. Giurescu

Summary/Abstract: Based on the terms settled by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin, Romania – as well as other countries in Central and Southeastern Europe – was transferred to the Soviet sphere of influence. Thus, a Bolshevik-type regime was established, which promoted a policy of destruction of political and intellectual elites. Constantin C. Giurescu found himself among those arrested in 1950. He was held in Sighet prison for five years and two months. After Stalin’s death, given the political détente on both domestic and international levels, Giurescu was released, being gradually reintegrated in the scientific and university activities. In 1974, Constantin C. Giurescu became a full member of the Academy of the Romanian Socialist Republic. Giurescu’s case was not a singular one, and this fact requires a tinted approach to the political regime of the time, giving up clichés and preconceptions.

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