BIOGRAFIILE LUI GHEORGHE GHEORGHIU-DEJ, ÎNTRE POPULARIZAREA DE PRIMĂ INSTANȚĂ ŞI CONSTRUCȚIA UNUI CULT AL PERSONALITĂȚII
GHEORGHE-GHEORGHIU DEJ’ BIOGRAPHIES – FROM FIRST-STAGE POPULARIZATION TO BUILDING THE CULT OF PERSONALITY

Summary/Abstract: The role of official biographies in legitimizing the communist leaders’ power has long been debated in the historiography. However, the Romanian scholars did not pay serious attention to the contribution of these writings in the making of Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej’s personality cult. Therefore, this article tries to find the roots and the evolution of this phenomenon analyzing one of the most important propagandistic instruments for the fabrication of the Romanian communist leader’s cult. One the one hand, a research of this topic is initiated in the hope of understanding the special role of biographies in a totalitarian regime. On the other hand, the study aims to emphasize that the function of the official biographies was to confirm the presence of the leader at the head of the Party. Finally, I will conduct a quantitative and qualitative study, in order to reveal the special role of Gheorghiu-Dej in the Romanian communist regime, in comparison with other representative leaders of the time.

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