Right-Wing Ideology and the Intellectuals in Romania during the Second World War
Right-Wing Ideology and the Intellectuals in Romania during the Second World War

Summary/Abstract: The association of Romanian intellectuals with the ideology of the extreme right has been a subject of ongoing debate in historiography. Authors from different academic fields have tried to analyze the reasons for the “strange” engagement of some of the most prominent representatives of the brilliant Romanian “new generation” of the 1930s with the Romanian authentic fascist movement, the Iron Guard. Additional acuteness is brought to the debate by the fact that some of the “Guardist” intellectuals, such as Mircea Eliade and Emil Cioran, later received worldwide popularity. But scholarly interest is somehow restricted to the interwar period only and almost no attention is paid to this relationship in the immediate period that followed.

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