Identity Politics under National Communist Rule. The Rhetoric Manifestations of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s ”Nationality Policy” in 1970s Romania
Identity Politics under National Communist Rule. The Rhetoric Manifestations of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s ”Nationality Policy” in 1970s Romania

Summary/Abstract: This article aims to identify and analyze the variations of Nicolae Ceauşescu’s rhetoric concerning the ”co-inhabiting nationalities” during the 1970s as a legitimacy-seeking gambit. The article argues that two of the key explanatory variables that influenced the escalation of anti-minority discourse and measures were the Romanian-Hungarian interstate relations and the resistance of the ethnic Hungarians in Romania to aggressively assimilationist strategies. This analysis is inscribed into a wider field of research (Critical Discourse Analysis), and is aimed at as certaining political discourse as a key generator and projector of political-societal developments and determinant of identity formation.

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