The Birth and Development of a Scholarly Topic: History-Writing and Political Power in Communist Romania, 1961-2015
The Birth and Development of a Scholarly Topic: History-Writing and Political Power in Communist Romania, 1961-2015
Author(s): Francesco ZavattiSubject(s): History, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today)
Published by: Centrul de Studii Memoriale și Identitare
Keywords: Historiography; Communism; Post-communism; Romania; Politics
Summary/Abstract: This article analyses the history of the scholarly studies dedicated to research on the relationship between historiography and political power in communist Romania. The historical account starts from the birth of the topic in USA and Western Europe during the cold war and analyses its development in Romania after 1989. The article contextualises the achievements and limits of the main works on the topic within the circumstances in which they have been written.
Journal: MemoScapes. Romanian Journal of Memory and Identity Studies
- Issue Year: 1/2017
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 19-38
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English