Financial and Legislative Aspects of the Communist Cultural Policies, 1953–1965
Financial and Legislative Aspects of the Communist Cultural Policies, 1953–1965

Summary/Abstract: Over the last few years researchers such as Alexandru-Murad Mironov and Ioana Macrea-Toma shed more light on some aspects regarding both the financial support for intellectuals and the royalties received by writers, scientists, and artists during the communist period. My paper examines topics like the annual budget for culture, pension system, and salaries given both to intellectuals and cultural bureaucrats, using especially documents from the National Archives, Funds Romanian Communist Party’s Central Committee – Propaganda and Agitation Section and Economy Section. One compared the archival sources with the data provided by the Official Bulletin trying to find out what was the percentage of the annual budget allocated for the arts, scientific research, and educational system. One tried also to outline the evolution of the laws regarding the pension system focusing on the discriminatory policies which cause distress among senior intellectuals perceived as anti-communist and recalcitrant.

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