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The Authoritarian Temptation: Turning a Modern Tyrant into a Political Role Model in post-Communist Romania
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Abstract A survey of post-1989 Romania is to indicate that while looking forward and striving for democratic achievements, the country also had to look backward and “come to terms” with her non-democratic recent past. Unfortunately, for more than 15 years after the collapse of communism no firm resolution ha... view more
A survey of post-1989 Romania is to indicate that while looking forward and striving for democratic achievements, the country also had to look backward and “come to terms” with her non-democratic recent past. Unfortunately, for more than 15 years after the collapse of communism no firm resolution has been brought to any of these pasts. The present paper is an overview of the politics of memory and its impact on the process of democratization in the case of Romania from 1989 to 2004. In this sense it focuses mainly, but not exclusively, on the way Romanian society dealt with history, memory, and amnesia when it came to Ion Antonescu and the Romanian Holocaust.... view less
Keywords
genocide; democratization; culture of remembrance; post-communist society; Romania; persecution of Jews; reminiscence; Third Reich
Classification
General History
Free Keywords
Ion Antonescu
Document language
English
Publication Year
2013
Page/Pages
p. 69-84
Journal
Annals of the University of Bucharest / Political science series, 15 (2013) 1
ISSN
1582-2486
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works