Lucian Blaga și cenzura comunistă
Lucian Blaga and the Communist Censorship.

Summary/Abstract: The installation of the communist regime at the end of the Second World War brought a radical cultural shift. Literature, art and education became instruments of the political propaganda. Numerous intellectuals and artists were convicted and eliminated from the public sphere and their work was erased from the national canon. The Romanian people were to receive a new cultural identity. Among the intellectuals that were condemned by the new regime was the poet, playwright and philosopher Lucian Blaga, one of the most complex personalities of Romanian culture. He was excluded from the Philosophy Department of the Cluj University and employed at the History and Philosophy Institute of the Romanian People’s Republic Academy in Cluj at the Department of Philosophy. As a researcher in a project dedicated to the Romanian thinking in Transylvania in the 18th century, Blaga was constrained by the communist censorship to interpret his findings through the lenses of the Marxist philosophy, thus, illustrating the way in which the Romanian culture came to be ideologized during the communist regime.

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