Cultura romana in secolul al XX-lea
Romanian culture in the twentieth century

Summary/Abstract: The first half of the twentieth century is regarded by many experts as the Golden Age of Romanian culture and it is the period when it reaches its maximum level of international affirmation in harmony with European cultural trends. Early twentieth century was a prolific period for Romanian prose and the personalities who worked as novelist were Liviu Rebreanu, Camil Petrescu, Mihail Sadoveanu and many more. During the interwar period, the literary field of modernism and traditionalism were disputed, and intellectual work was appreciated and paid. Social condition of intellectual ensured its appropriate status to its preparation. In the early years of building communist regime have been made every effort to monitorize the spread of literacy of the population and the introduction of free education at all levels. At the same time, repressive policy led to throwing in prisons and physically removing hundreds and thousands of intellectuals in the interwar period. However, in this era there was a strong editorial activity . In order to educate the „popular masses”, a very large number of books have been published widely, books of Romanian authors, as well as in the universal literature. The published books were subjected to censorship and they had in the eyes of the authorities the purpose to promote the values and ideals considered desirable by the communist leadership.

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