Between Political Exile and Personal Identity: Virgil Tănase’s Identity Discourse

Author(s): Iuliana Barna / Language(s): English Issue: 2-I/2010

La censure politique en Roumanie pendant la période communiste déclanche le soi-disant exile. Les écrivains roumains qui ne se soumettent pas au régime politique, se penchent vers une littérature du réel, esthétique, transparente et ouverte. Leur écriture renonce à l’opacité des mots afin de cacher la vérité; par conséquent, ils se voient obligés de choisir la voie de l’exile. Pour certains, le voyage vers un autre territoire ne connaît pas de retour. Le prosateur et dramaturge Virgil Tanase n’accepte pas la notion d’exile et, de plus, il ne demande jamais d’asile politique dans la France, son pays d’adoption. Il sent comme un roumain et s’identifie par sa propre création, vivant à travers son art.

Elements of Communist Ideology in the Novel The Queen of Streets by Gabriela Melinescu

Author(s): Laura Bădărău-Vlaicu / Language(s): English Issue: 2-I/2010

Acţiunea se petrece într-un Bucureşti comunist în care Preşedintele îşi construieşte mitul conducătorului prin ruperea prezentului proletar de trecutul corupt al boierimii şi înfiinţarea societăţii civice. Această societate presupune acte groteşti ale Preşedintelui (scris cu majusculă) care se consideră întruparea divinităţii. Dorinţa lui de a rămâne în memoria statului său chiar şi după ce va muri este privită cu umor negru: „Deşi era în viaţă, Preşedintele voia să-şi asigure nemurirea, să intre în memoria secolelor. Se gândea că, după moartea lui, succesorii vor face totul pentru a fi uitat. Ştia foarte bine acest lucru. Şi el îl denigrase şi făcuse să dispară din amintirea oamenilor urmele Preşedintelui de dinaintea lui. De aceea, se hotărâse să-şi creeze mitul încă de pe când trăia, să glorifice clasa muncitoare cât timp era stăpânul absolut. Dacă se întâmpla într-o zi să trebuiască să moară, lucru care i se părea totuşi inevitabil, cel care va veni după el i-ar distruge opera. Dar, datorită a tot ce făcuse şi continua să facă ca să-şi făurească gloria, putea fi sigur că va rămâne întotdeauna ceva din domnia lui. De aceea avusese o idee genială. Să-şi împăieze poporul. Cine putea distruge memoria unui popor devotat Preşedintelui său?” Consecinţa acestei dorinţe se concretizează într-un “Muzeu al Lucrătorilor Neobosiţi”, loc în care poporul credincios conducerii va fi împăiat şi expus pentru ca generaţiile următoare să se închine trecutului luminos. Deşi muzeul de carton nu este sortit eternităţii fiind distrus în urma unui incendiu, Preşedintele nu renunţă la planurile sale de a rămâne în memoria colectivă şi demolează un cartier select al Bucureştiului pentru a construi “marele centru de dezvoltare civică”, Casa Poporului, clădire impozantă care arată orgoliul conducerii

Where did the sessions of the Vilnius sejmik take place in 1717–1795?

Author(s): Robertas Jurgaitis / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

Instructions for the deputies of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania for the Great Diet Remarks on the new Lithuanian source edition

Author(s): Witold Filipczak / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2017

Re-Flaming the Political Union and Unionists: Local Historical Reading Frontlines

Author(s): Elena Tereza Danciu / Language(s): English Issue: 44/2014

Herodotus used to write about the Thracians in book V of his Histories: “the Thracian people is, after that of the Indians, the greatest of all. If they had one ruler and they were united, they would be invincible and, as I think, far more powerful than all peoples…”. The lack of political unity has been and will remain an atavistic feature of the Romanian nation. Burebista managed to unify “the bravest and most righteous of all Thracians” within the natural boundaries and to achieve the greatest Geto-Dacian kingdom, but in 44 BC he was assassinated as a result of a conspiracy planned by just a few people”. Michael the Brave had the same destiny. In the summer of 1600, he managed to be the sole political authority in the medieval history of Romania which had been able to master “the three Romanian Principalities”. Unfortunately, this situation did not last long. The same political reasons and ambitions hastened the end of the brave ruler and, as a consequence, upset the plans of political unity for the second time in our history. In 1859, along with the Unification of the Romanian Principalities, we can speak of the Romanians’ conscious and general expression of will. The political rivalries leading to the forced abdication of Alexandru Ioan Cuza moved onto the ground of reforms necessary for the modernization of the newly created state. We will try to develop these ideas by analyzing the connection between the three great state rulers and the premises which prefigured the framework for the achievement of political unification.

The Right of the Governed: Foucault’s Theoretical Political Turn

Author(s): João Leite Ferreira-Neto / Language(s): English Issue: 1-2/2017

This paper aims to understand the theoretical-political turn of Foucault constructed from 1978, which led him to a distancing from the Maoist left and to a return to the notion of subjectivity within a perspective of liberty, in the context of his governmentality studies. The historical-institutional aspects relating to his theoretical and political shift will be discussed, with basis on biographical sources and texts by the author published at that time. The conclusion is that Foucault used both Marxist and neoliberal contributions, avoiding reducing the politics to a confrontation between two projects, but considering it a complex field of plural strategies. He also began to theorize about the rights historically known as the ‘right of the governed,’ led by the question: ‘how to become subject without being subjected?’.

One Hundred Years of Romanian History. Political-Legal Landmarks

Author(s): Cristian Bocancea / Language(s): English Issue: 22/2018

During the last century, Romania lived sinuously experiencing moments of triumph (such as the Great Union from 1918 or the 1989 Revolution), as well as tragic times (the Second World War, followed by the communist era). The country's politics went from liberal democracy and constitutional monarchy, to military dictatorship and soviet communism, followed by a turnaround to democracy during the last three decades. Romania's economy also got to know the interwar capitalism, and experience the centrally planned economy, before going back to private property and market economy. Some of the greatest present achievements would be joining NATO and the European Union, which allow us to make sure Romania remains a country that is safe, prosperous and respectful of its citizens' rights.

GIANCARLO MARZOCCHI, CIRO PAOLETTI, TRENI E MILITARI ITALIANI, ASSOCIAZIONE CULTURALE COMMISSIONE ITALIANA DI STORIA MILITARE, ROMA, 2017, 368 PAGINE

Author(s): Enriko Černigoi,Ajelo Del Friuli / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2018

INFORMACIJE

Author(s): Dalibor Denda,Miljan Milkić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 1/2018

Drogi inteligencji polskiej (od powstania styczniowego do niepodległości) – wprowadzenie

Author(s): Jarosław Kita / Language(s): Polish Issue: 19/2018

Husnija Kamberović, DŽEMAL BIJEDIĆ. POLITIČKA BIOGRAFIJA, Sarajevo, Udruženje za modernu historiju

Author(s): Nikola Ožegović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

КОЛАБОРАЦИОНИСТИ ПРЕД СУДОМ ОЗНЕ: САСЛУШАЊА МИЛАНА НЕДИЋА, ДРАГОМИРА ЈОВАНОВИЋА, ТАНАСИЈА ДИНИЋА И КОСТЕ МУШИЦКОГ ПРЕД ОРГАНИМА ОЗНЕ

Author(s): Nemanja Mitrović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

Миомир Гаталовић, БУРНА ВРЕМЕНА: КОСОВО И МЕТОХИЈА У ДРЖАВНОЈ ПОЛИТИЦИ ЈУГОСЛАВИЈЕ 1966–1969, Београд, Институт за савремену историју, 2018, 433.

Author(s): Miloš Čorbić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

JUGOSLAVIJA – IZMEĐU UJEDINJENJA I RAZLAZA: HRVATSKO-SRPSKI ODNOSI U KONTEKSTU DRUŠTVENOG RAZVOJA DVE JUGOSLAVIJE 1918–1991

Author(s): Nikola Mijatov / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

Милош Тимотијевић, ЗЛАТО ЧЕТНИКА И ПАРТИЗАНА – ДЕКОНСТРУКЦИЈА ЈЕДНОГ МИТА. ФИНАНСИЈЕ И ОТПОР ОКУПАТОРУ У СРБИЈИ И ЈУГОСЛАВИЈИ 1941–1945, Београд, Службени гласник, 2018, 312.

Author(s): Nemanja Dević / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

Heinrich August Winkler, AUF EWIG IN HITLERS SCHATTEN? ÜBER DIE DEUTSCHEN UND IHRE GESCHICHTE, München, C. H. Beck, 2018, 222.

Author(s): Mihael T. Antolović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

Сусрети и разговори са Николом Љубичићем

Author(s): Venceslav Glišić / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

The text describes the recollections of General Nikola Ljubicic about his contemporaries and the events in which he had taken part, in the course of several meetings with historian Dr. Venceslav Glišić. It is a significant historical source about Serbian and Yugoslav history from the 1960s to the first half of the 1990s.

Martin Maria Reinkowski. 100 Jahre Jugoslawien. Geschichte und Legende. Petersberg: Michael Imhof Verlag, 2018, 302.

Author(s): Zoran Janjetović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

NEOGRANIČENO TUMAČENJE NEMAČKOG GRAĐANSKOG PRAVA U VREME NACIONALSOCIJALIZMA

Author(s): Slavko Đorđević,Štefan Pirner / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they began to rebuild the German legal system in accordance with the National Socialism ideology. Considering it was impossible to complete this task “overnight”, the Nazi legal theory established the view that all acts and statutes enacted prior to 1933 must be interpreted in the interest of National Socialism. In this paper the authors analyse the theoretical foundations of such interpretation, which was marked as “unrestricted interpretation of law” in post-war legal theory, focusing on its role in the process of Nazification of German civil law that was actively practiced by German courts. The authors also briefly analyse the post-war process of “denazification” of the laws enacted during the Nazi era, which was also performed by the mean of legal interpretation, but this time with the aim of eliminating the Nazi ideology from legal rules.

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Author(s): Boris Begović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 2/2019

Dimić, Ljubodrag i Nikola Žutić. 2017. Alojzije Stepinac – država, crkva, nadbiskup (1934‒1941). Beograd: Filip Višnjić, 455.