PERCEPŢII ASUPRA COMUNISMULUI ÎN MENTALUL COLECTIV – SURSE DOCUMENTARE ŞI MĂRTURII STUDIU DE CAZ: RAIONUL BRAD ÎN ANII COLECTIVIZĂRII AGRICULTURII
Perceptions on Communism in Collective Memory Documents and Testimonies. A Case Study: Brad District

Summary/Abstract: During 1950-1968, the region of Brad is situated in the Northern part of Hunedoara. Shortly after the communism regime was implemented in Romania, during 1948-1968 the administrative institutions of this region joined the central power in order to oversee the population. Dominant here, as in entire Romania, was an anxiety concerning what the new regime was supposed to do; communism means a total change of life, having ratios of meal, similar clothes, a controlled media, restrictions regarding traveling in the country and abroad, new taxes, in a word forbiddance all over Romania. Perceptions on communism are revealed in documents and also testimonies. But they are different according to the source: political documents are in total opposition on what the survivors are saying regarding the same topic, for instance collectivization. This is what our paper tries to establish: an objective way to observe the difference between the “negative” and the “positive” actor, depending on the source.

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