MEMORIILE AIDEI VRIONI – O IMAGINE DRAMATICĂ A ÎNCEPUTURILOR COMUNISMULUI ROMÂNESC (1949-1953)
THE AIDA VRIONI’ S MEMOIRS – AN IMAGE OF THE ROMANIAN COMMUNISM GENESIS (1949-1953)

Summary/Abstract: Aida Vrioni (1880-1954), with the maid name Maria Mateescu, Aidabeing a pseudonym, and Vrioni Ștefan her husband’s name, was a the first professional journalist in Romania. Since she was 15 years old, she started to write novels and sketches. Together with her brother Dumitru Mateescu she printed at Ploiești, the the town journal „Aurora”. In 1904 the journalist Constantin Mille brought her to Bucharest and offered the job of undetermined contract as editor to the newspaper „Adevărul”. She became the first woman journalist in Romania. For two years she had an intense professional activity in journalism at „Adevărul”, „Dimineața”, „Țara”, etc. Beginning of 1907 she was implied in her family’s life and she kept far away from the cultural life, but in 1923 she came back as journalist to the previous newspapers, where she used to collaborate. On February 19th, she founded,together with Adela Xenopol the Society of Romanian Women Writers, and one year later, the „Journal of Romanian Women Writers”, and the „Journal of Romanian Writers” in 1929, that she edited until the end of its publishing. Aida Vrioni wrote her memoirs in 1919-1921, 1924, 1927, 1930, 1933-1935,1949-1953 in few daily journals, letters, addresses that are preserved at National Archives of Romania. In her memoirs, from 1921, she described the holiday in Constanța. In five personal journals Aida Vrioni noted memories of 1945-1953 and presented the communist society (the cold in houses and restrictions of wood, the hungry and missing of basic food, the small pensions, and selling the personal things, of house cloths) and contemporary events (gas and electric restrictions,monetary reform, the leaving of Jews to Palestina, the organization of communist celebrations, and abandoning the Orthodox celebrations), some personalities (as Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej, Ion Marin Sadoveanu, Lucia Demetrius, Lucia Sturdza Bulandra), the travels, the medical treatment and daily life at Călimănești spa, family relations.

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