Copilăria în timpul regimului comunist din România în imagini filatelice
Childhood in philatelic images during the communist regime in Romania

Summary/Abstract: Through this article we attempt to draw attention of the researchers and those who are genuinely interested in the history of the Romanian childhood, a matter which is very little known, namely the philately and the use of the postal stamps during the communist regime in Romania, in order to educate and to shape the children and the youngsters in the spirit of that time. As the development of the philately as a mass phenomenon had a powerful ideological substrate, there is no wonder that one had intended to form a certain attitude which would allow, if necessary, even the orientation and the manipulation from a very early age.At the same time, the postal stamp represents a very important image vector for every national state, used as such by the central authorities, this aspect being another reason in favour of the inclusion of the philatelic theme in an analysis regarding the general frame of the history of childhood. The chronological presentation of the philatelic emissions which have children and childhood as a subject also allows the determination of certain reference points followed by the political factor at the level of the philatelic representations, which had to prove the full regimentation and alignment of the children and teenagers to the official line promoted by the party.

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