ANIVERSĂRILE REGALE ŞI PROPAGANDA INSTITUŢIONALIZATĂ: ZIUA DE NAŞTERE A REGELUI CAROL AL II-LEA (1938–1939)
ROYAL BIRTHDAYS AND INSTITUTIONALIZED PROPAGANDA: THE BIRTHDAY OF KING CAROL II (1938–1939)

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to indentify the mechanisms through which institutionalized propaganda pursued/tried to mobilize the state’s structures in order to spread into the wide public’s ranks the ideology of the carlist regime, an ideology focused on the idea of a disciplined and devoted nation towards King Carol II, whose cult gained, in 1939, dimensions without precedent in Romanian history. The retracing of historical process and the analysis of the organisation and the deployment of the King’s birth day – raised at the rank of national ceremony – allows highlighting the monopoly established by the central power over the festive events as well as the verification of the official speech’s truthfulness regarding the national solidarity toward the king and his regime, in other words to measure the degree of popularity (or its absence) of King Carol II.

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