The Young Revolutionary’s Myth: The Nicolae Ceausescu’s Case
The Young Revolutionary’s Myth: The Nicolae Ceausescu’s Case

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the way in which the Nicolae Ceausescu’s biography as a professional revolutionary was constructed by the Romanian propagandistic apparatus. The identification of the main events of his revolutionary activity is presented in relation with the methods used for the rectification of their official version, underlying the possible motivations behind the effort of assigning to Nicolae Ceausescu a false major role in their manifestation. As I would demonstrate below, Ceausescu was not a unique case of a dictator preoccupied of the falsifying his revolutionary past. In fact, his official biography is similar to other political leaders’ biographical accounts in its thematic content and in the symbolic meanings attached to the main events of his earlier political activity.

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