Dictionarul Institutiilor
Dictionary of Institutions

Summary/Abstract: The State Committee on Collection of Agricultural Produce. The State Committee on Collection of Agricultural Produce was the main body through which the communist regime organized the collection of the mandatory quotas from peasants. In June 1948 a State Commission on Collection of Grain was set up, and on February 18, 1950 it was replaced by the State Committee on Collection of Agricultural Produce, based on a Soviet model. It was officially dismantled on February 1, 1957, when a State Committee for the Capitalization of Agricultural Produce was set up. The Plastic Artists Union. The Plastic Artists Union represented Romanian fine arts from 1949 until 1989. In 1949 the Plastic Arts Fund was set up and in December 1950 the Plastic Artists Union was created after the former Trade Union of Fine Arts (set up in 1921) had been dissolved. The new institution was organized after the Soviet model of artists associations. Its new leadership was headed by Boris Caragea, who was president of the UPA until 1957. The Union operated in this Soviet-inspired formula until 1989. Prison Poetry.Prison poetry was one of the ways to resist the destructive pressure of the Romanian prison system. It offered thousands of political prisoners the opportunity to survive through artistic expression of a moral and spiritual predicament. The chief feature of prison poetry is its oral character: composed and then memorized by the author’s fellow inmates, it crossed the prison walls in Morse code.

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