Sovietizarea prin cultură în județul Satu Mare: Asociația Română pentru Strângerea Legăturilor cu U.R.S.S. (ARLUS) între anii 1947–1950
Sovietization Through Culture in Satu Mare: The Romanian Association for Strengthening Links with the U.S.S.R. (ARLUS) between 1947–1950

Summary/Abstract: The study “Sovietization Through Culture in Satu Mare: the Romanian Association for Strengthening Links with the USSR (ARLUS) between 1947–1950” continues the previous studies about the Association’s history, between 1945–1946, with the period from 1947 to 1950. After some brief general considerations related to the study on the 1945–1946 period, the main part of the paper focuses on a history of ARLUS activity in Satu Mare County between 1947 and 1950 and is structured in three chapters. The first chapter studies the Association’s new wave of expansion after 1947, starting from the instructions received from the ARLUS headquarters, whose main objective is the establishment of village sections in the rural areas. The second chapter presents aspects of cultural activity of the ARLUS Satu Mare branch during the studied period and is structured in three subchapters. The first subchapter presents the cultural activity rendered in the ARLUS activity reports, the second subchapter focuses on the organization and the unfolding of the events during the Romanian-Soviet Friendship Week (1–7 November), and the third subchapter follows the planning and work activity in the ARLUS branch. At the end of the study, the author’s conclusions are presented. They point to the significant increase in ARLUS affiliates and the number of members after 1947, the increasing control that the Romanian Workers’ Party exercises over the Association, and the role that ARLUS Satu Mare Branch had in the Sovietization of the county through culture.

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