STANOMIR, ANGELO MITCHIEVICI, Communism, inc. Stories about a world that was. Bucharest: Ed. HUMANITAS, 2016
STANOMIR, ANGELO MITCHIEVICI, Communism, inc. Stories about a world that was. Bucharest: Ed. HUMANITAS, 2016

Summary/Abstract: Writing about communism is actually one of the main directions of the Romanian intellectuals, not only due to the fact that it is a political regime integrated in our recent history, but also due to its capacity to be a great source of inspiration for „philosophical lessons”. Communism was the dominant ideology of the entire XXth century and it left its scars on the daily life of many generations. Communism was a totalitarian ideology that changed the society in all its areas: social and political structures, professional and moral rules and values, education and culture. The Romanian cultural field is particularly analyzed by most authors because it has, after the fall of communism, two distinct faces: one that fits the period before 1945 and featured by total freedom of creation, in which there were more literary and artistic currents, and the second fitted in the post-war period, in the communist era, which was characterized by censorship, terror and ideological domination. Ioan Stanomir and Angelo Mitchievici analyze, in this collection of essays, the intellectual resistance against communist ideology, in the 1948-1965 years, trying to disseminate the main features of this attitude. It is an approach for recovery of a dark era, in which the freedom of speech was only an illusion for most of elevated people.

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