ANTI-COMMUNIST RESISTANCE IN THE FĂGĂRAȘ MOUNTAINS (ROMANIA) AS A CHALLENGE FOR SOCIAL MEMORY AND AN EXERCISE OF CRITICAL THINKING

• Authors: Sorea Daniela , Bolborici Ana-Maria
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Social memory is dynamic, adaptable to the ensemble of group perceptions on the present. In the first decade after WWII there were numerous active anti-communist armed resistance groups in the Romanian mountains. The most powerful resistance groups operated on the southern and northern sides of the Făgăraș Mountains. According to the results of exploratory research conducted in 2020 the representations of the anti-communist resistance in the mountains in Romanian young people’s memories are feeble. Retrieving representations of the resistance is useful as critical exercise in understanding history, as source of identity comfort and as part of the lesson on totalitarianism.

Keywords

EN

ANTI-COMMUNIST MOVEMENT; RESISTANCE; SOCIAL MEMORY; CRITICAL THINKING; IDENTITY; ROMANIA

• Publisher: Institute of Sociology, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Sociológia (Sociology)
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 53
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 266 – 286

Contributors

author

Sorea Daniela

• Transilvania University of Brașov, Faculty of Sociology and Communication, Brasov, 500030, B-dul. Eroilor, nr. 25, Romania

author

Bolborici Ana-Maria

Identifiers

DOI

https://doi.org/10.31577/sociologia.2021.53.3.10