L’incitation à la vigilance et à la dénonciation
The instigation to vigilance and to denunciation

Implementation of the central directives in the organization of the Soviet film festival in 1950, I

Summary/Abstract: The enlargement of the Romanian communist party between 1945 and 1948 by recruiting members without political activity or communist conviction creates a climate of general suspicion regarding potential enemies infiltrating the party. Besides the campaign of “verification” of the members launched by the Control Commission, the soviet film festival organized in many Romanian cities from August to December 1950 aimed to encourage the vigilance of the faithful members and the denunciation of “bad elements”. This article focused on the organization of the film festival, the purposes, the guidelines, the resources (technical and human) set up by the central authorities (director of the Committee for Cinema, director of Sovromfilm) and the way the local authorities (directors of cinema theaters, work unions, presidents of the local structures of the party, etc) respond to the directives which come from above.

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