THE INDEPENDENCE OF ROMANIA - A GLANCE AT THE POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE TIME THROUGH POLITICAL SPEECHES
THE INDEPENDENCE OF ROMANIA - A GLANCE AT THE POLITICAL IDEAS OF THE TIME THROUGH POLITICAL SPEECHES

Summary/Abstract: The moment of declaring Romania's state independence is one of the historical reference events. During this short study, the authors intended to present five speeches that reflected the most important ideas of the moment and how the national political elites had positioned themselves within the Orient-West paradigm. Throughout the texts, the arguments that under-pined the declaration of the country's independence from the Ottoman Empire were firmly resolved. The symbolic value of the arguments used demonstrated that from an ideological point of view, the Romanian political class was integrated into the system of Western European values. These elements demonstrated that the rupture of this reference space had largely been eliminated. The autochthonous political elite began this process half a century ago, but now the westernization modernization model has been referenced, which shows us that the values of the past, specific to the Eastern model paradigm, were progressively replaced by the Western modernizing ones.

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