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Suffering into patrimony: dealing with communist repression in postcommunist Romania

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Dobre C.-F.
Historia Slavorum Occidentis
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2023
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issue 4(39)
95-113
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Analyses of communist repression in post-communist Romania focused on anticommunism and its totemic figures. Laws, institutions and people promote this perspective, transforming the suffering of the formerly politically persecuted into a patrimony meant to be preserved and passed on. On the official level, the anticommunist paradigm gained momentum in December 2006 when the communist regime was condemned as ‘criminal and illegitimate’. However, a majority of the population have not embraced the official approach to communism as the fallen regime still acts as a ‘millieu de memoire’ (as defined by Pierre Nora). My article deals with the main institutions and laws which aimed at promoting and transmitting the memory of repression in post-communist Romania. Analyzing the memory politics as regards the communist repression might provide fresh insight into the ongoing process of building a cultural memory through selection, reconstruction and adjusting figures, deeds, and memorial items.
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Les vingt ans du postcommunisme roumain: L’éspace public et les mémoires du communisme

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Dobre C.-F.
Sensus Historiae. Studia interdyscyplinarne
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2011
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issue 4(5)
25-45
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In the aftermath of 1989, Romania faced the challenge of dealing with its communist past. The responses to this civic pressure varied and were dependent on a number of factors: the degree of attachment of the population to the former regime, the existence of an emerging civil society, the way the regime collapsed, as well as the “contextual factors” like the “privatization of nomenklatura” (Helga Welsh), the presence in the new state structure of what Thomas Baylis called the “lower nobility of the communist era” (the neo-communists), and the specific economic and social issues of the transitional period. Amnesia, active oblivion, the “privatization” of memory, the hypertrophy of memory, new mythologies are just a few of the strategies for dealing with the communist past that have emerged in the last 20 years. Promoting an “official public memory” of communism as an “invasion”, declaring the former regime as being “illegitimate and criminal,” adopting compensatory laws are some of the other more concrete reactions within the field of struggle over the memory of communism.
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