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Keywords: Mihai Beniuc; cult of personality; socialist realism; communist regime; privileges; “Proletkult”
The article explores the relationship between political power and literature in post-war communist Romania and examines the poems composed by writers for their “beloved leader”. In particular, the text emphasizes the position of the new cultural elite of the so-called “dejist” period analyzing the biography and work of Mihai Beniuc, one of the most representative poets of the “Proletkult”. Accordingly, the study depicts the main features of the poem entitled “Cântec pentru tovarăşul Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej” [Song for Comrade Gh. Gheorghiu-Dej], concluding that its publication had a great contribution to manufacturing a genuine personality cult around Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, the first leader of the Romanian Workers’ Party.
More...contents of studia Philospophia 1/2005
More...Keywords: Paleoslavoni;; neologism; borrowing; etymology.
The end of the XVIIth century represents a moment of reorientation towards the Western values mediated by the Greek and Latin languages, as a rection against the Paleoslavonic which, for many centuries, had been holding the supremacy in the cultural, spiritual and political life in the Romanian States. One of its effects was the enrichment of the romanian vocabulary with Greek and Latin words. The preference for this type of neologism, to Paleoslavonic’s detriment, is obvious in Antim Ivireanul’s works. He used more than 30 Greek and Latin neologisms in his sermons. Our paper presents these words from etymological and historical point of view.
More...Short review and history of the literary critic in Romania.
More...Keywords: Securitate; security; Nicolae Ceaușescu; conflict; betrayal; espionage
The Thesis according to which “the Securitate was faithful to Ceaușescu until December 22nd 1989 at 12:09”, is completely wrong and was supported in bad faith. After banning links between Army and Securitate officers and the Soviets, in 1972, the Securitate kept unreported ties with the K.G.B. and S.T.A.S.I., especially through G.D.D.I., structure that had a greater action and movement freedom. Within the Securitate, the perception on Nicolae Ceausescu was not consistent. Nicolae Ceausescu was not viewed as an enemy by the entire Securitate. This perception was manifested especially between the national leaders of the institution who were kept in their offices by Iulian Vlad and his devotees, officers with experience in service, who lived through the period when the Securitate was like a „state within a state”, when, under K.G.B. supervision, it led an intelligence war against the West, with the support of the grand ally. On these, the pressure exerted by Nicolae Ceauşescu was very high. Increasingly heavy tasks put before the Securitate by Nicolae Ceausescu were enforced with a permanent „sword of Damocles” over the heads of commanders, who did not feel for a moment comfort or peace. Under these circumstances, the privileges, wages, bonuses, the preferential supply, the concern for carers, could no longer rejoice the chiefs, who no longer felt the need of any gratitude from the Supreme Commander.
More...Keywords: Prague Spring; 1968; Romanian politics; Nicolae Ceauşescu
The Czechoslovak crisis of 1968 had a lasting effect on Romanian politics and society. As Mary Fischer said, the Prague Spring was a “galvanizing event” for the Romanian Communist Party and for Nicolae Ceauşescu personally. It offered the chance to the Romanian dictator to appear to the whole world as a strong anti-Soviet leader, despite his Communist regime. Taking advantage from the profound anti-Soviet/Russian feelings of the Romanian people, it also offered the unique possibility to the R.C.P. to try a reconcilation with the Nation. Ashby Crowder - M.A. in European history at Ohio University, United States. He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the South East European Studies Association, and the Society for Romanian Studies.
More...Keywords: local elections; proportional electoral mechanisms; majoritarian electoral mechanisms; electoral reform
2012 election, which took place under exceptional political auspices, is generally considered atypical when compared to the other five post-communist local election cycles, the two reasons for this being the increased citizen ballot presence (caused by the particularity of the election period) and the specific legislature changes. Is such an approach justified? By aiming to investigate the validity of such an approach, we will retrace the history of post-communist Romanian local elections, by looking at the effective political consequences and especially at the dynamics of the electoral formulas that were employed.
More...Keywords: writer; journalist; identity; compulsions; public new media; interweave; border; renouncing; adaptability
The paper aims at analysing the evolution in the public space of three Romanian writers: Cristian Tudor Popescu, Stelian Tănase and Mircea Dinescu. There will be highlighted the liberties and compulsions involved by the adhering to a space open to a varied and unpredictable public, and also the mutual influences of the literary work and press production (newspaper article or TV talk-show), interests which interfere in a propitious way. The three writers go beyond the well outlined boundaries of literature, anchoring in a public space using mass-media, thus vacillating between the two hypostasis they are constantly identifying with.
More...Keywords: scientometrics; Publish or Perish; scientific research; evaluation methods of research; citation; impact factor; h index (Hirsch); Index g (Egghe) h contemporary; hl individually USARB
Scientometrics is a useful tool for sifting values and connection with European values regarding basic scientific research. Scientometrics study on university researchers from Bălţi demonstrates the value of their scientific contributions
More...Keywords: The Mineriads; violent demonstration; legitimacy; press; Romania;
The coal miners' movements towards the capital constitute a pretext to examine the confrontation of miners and journalists, perhaps the most important pressure groups in post-communist Romania. Considering the social structure of these groups, this divergence mirrors their conflicting reactions towards the political system that was instituted after December 1989. Yet, notwithstanding their separate perceptions of democracy, the author proposes to investigate the arguments used in this confrontation. The causes and evolution of the miners' visits to Bucharest as gauges in the evolution of the Romanian democracy, the legitimation and delegitimation of their actions since the events of June 1990 are thus traced in three daily newspapers, "Adevărul", "Romania Liberă" and "Dimineața", which the author monitored over the corresponding tidal periods: January- September 1990, September-December 1991, and January-March 1999. One method of undermining the other's legitimacy is that of twisting history through partisan interpretation or even by re-writing those historical events that shaped the adversary's particular identity. Such events that built the miners' image are the strike of 1929, which the communist regime considered an essential episode of the fight against the bourgeois oppression of the workers, and the strike of 1977, which, on the contrary, produced an anti-communist alibi. Nevertheless, the latter representation began to fade, especially after the events in June 1990, as some editorialists questioned the incomplete resistance of 1977, the miners' feeble participation in the uprising of December 1989 and their unconditional support for the communists who remained in office. The most striking case is that of the January 1999 miners' raid, when the strike of 1929 receives completely opposing connotations in "Romania Liberă" and "Dimineața".
More...Keywords: Romania; Silent Valley; minorities; hierarchies; hierarchical balancing; homosexuality; Roma community; gender binaries;
The article discusses the socialist and post-socialist hierarchical structure in Romania by focusing on the sociological reading of the series Silent Valley (Valea Mutã, 2016). As argued in the text, the production shows a remarkable, novel approach to breaking the discursive taboos of the Ceaușescu system by featuring homosexuality, corruption and revised gender roles on screen. The main focus of the article is on revealing how the old socialist socio-political hierarchies have been inherited and/or transferred to the capitalist-democratic epoch. By analysing such structures, the text provides a gender-centred description of the Romanian socialist and contemporary framework, while giving special attention to the situation of the Roma minority in the country. In a formalist-structuralist reading, it aims to dissect the phenomena of gender hierarchy, political and social dominance, and people’s subjugated position within this context.
More...Keywords: Intelligence; Romanian Armed Forces Secret Service; Siguranța Statului (Secret Intelligence Service); Niky Ștefănescu; Detectives Corps;
Although almost unknown in the historiography of this field, Nicolae Ștefănescu is included in the gallery of famous figures of Romanian espionage and counterespionage. He started his career with the Security Police, where he distinguished himself in identifying and neutralising the Bolshevik espionage organisations. He was head of Foreign Intelligence Service on the USSR within the Directorate of Police and General Security.His activity being recognised, “as an intelligent and cheerful element”, Mihail Moruzov proposed that he should go to the “S” Service of the Romanian Armed Forces, proposition accepted in January 1931, where he would become the head of the Counter-Intelligence Section, as a director. After a few years,he was appointed head of Detectives Corps and director of the Security Police within the General and Police Directorate. His entire activity in the service of the Romanian state and nation is a model of professionalism and commitment.
More...Keywords: bibliography; National Institute for the Study of Totalitarianism;
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