The Bessarabia Issue – Between Historiography and the Official Political Discourse in Romania, During the “Ceausescu Regime”
The Bessarabia Issue – Between Historiography and the Official Political Discourse in Romania, During the “Ceausescu Regime”

Summary/Abstract: At the end of the first decade and a half from the establishment of the communist regime in Romania, one can see a comeback of the national factors in the historical speech, comeback which continued in the following years, in a more obvious and large rhythm. The first part of the seventh decade, was by all means a period of transition to the most glorious epoch of historical research of the entire communist era. That period, the first 5 – 6 years of Ceausism, was even in the political field one relatively rich, marking a stressed gap, from an ideological point of view, from the big brother from the east. This fact was possible in a context in which the soviet political elites were profoundly divided, and in the entire soviet block was acting a political centrifuge. In this context was brought into discussion the Bessarabia problem. Using this positive situation in the historical speech, it was considered that the communist interwar thesis regarding the multinational character of the Romanian state, were wrong.

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