SOVIET CULTURAL COLONIALISM: CULTURE AND POLITICAL DOMINATION IN THE LATE 1940s-EARLY 1950s ROMANIA Cover Image

SOVIET CULTURAL COLONIALISM: CULTURE AND POLITICAL DOMINATION IN THE LATE 1940s-EARLY 1950s ROMANIA
SOVIET CULTURAL COLONIALISM: CULTURE AND POLITICAL DOMINATION IN THE LATE 1940s-EARLY 1950s ROMANIA

Author(s): Andrada Fătu-Tutoveanu
Subject(s): Cultural history
Published by: Teaduste Akadeemia Kirjastus
Keywords: colonialism; imperialism; cultural colonialism; sovietising; cultural transfer; cultural dependences; cultural identity; cultural export

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the potential of a theoretical comparison between communism and colonialism, focusing on the cultural dimension of the Stalinization process in Eastern Europe. The paper applies this theoretical perspective to late 1940s-early 1950s Romanian culture in relation with the appropriation of culture by the communist regime within the late 1940s political and ideological shift in Eastern Europe. The approach uses as a background for its argumentation a theoretical debate which started 2001 and has continued until today (Moore 2001, Kovačević 2008), also reinterpreting on a series of theories developed during as well as at the end of the Cold War (Kulski 1959, Kolarz 1964, Horvath 1972, Katsenelinboigen 1990). The paper uses a series of conceptual tools such cultural transfer, cultural dependences, cultural identity, cultural export, which are applied for the first time to the Romanian culture.

  • Issue Year: XVI/2012
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 77-93
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: English
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