The Crisis of Culture in the Post-Communism Transition
The Crisis of Culture in the Post-Communism Transition

Summary/Abstract: After 1989, there was a reform in the Romanian society that caused significant tension both at the political level and in the economic and cultural system. The characteristic transformations for the cultural phenomenon are: the aspiration for the restoration of authentic values and the regaining of the creation freedom. Changes in cultural space are closely related to those in the political space. Within the cultural environment, in the transition period, the communist regime and cultural reconstruction projects prevail. There have been critical interpretations of the culture of the communist period: accusations and culpability on some representatives of Romanian culture; descriptions of the malfunctioning of cultural institutions. There have been debates on the meaning of cultural resistance term during the totalitarian regime. Concerning some assertions about diffuse collaboration and support for the communist regime, there were different invitations to represent a form of passive resistances by cultural personalities, manifested by refusal to write under control. Among the culture people, a climate of suspicion and accusation prevailed and it generated by the idea of a communist process. In the Romanian culture, during the transition, there were confrontations, problems which remained diffuse, un-clarified or analyzed and reinterpreted. In some publications, significant topics related to establishing the truth and reconstructing the correct image of the past were analyzed. The relationship between national identity and European integration has been widely debated in cultural and intellectual environments.

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