Constantin Iordachi
Biographic Data
| ID | 509451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Constantin Iordachi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Constantin |
| FAMILY NAME | Iordachi |
| SIGNATURE | IORDACHI C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 23 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe, 1848–1939: Peasants' National Integration and Social Mobilisation
Three Reflections on New Directions in Comparative Fascism Studies
In this article, three leading scholars of comparative fascism studies offer their thoughts and reflections on the state of the field. It seeks to stimulate debate and reflection on how to study fascism in the years to come and addresses a number of challenges facing this area of study. Aristotle Kallis focuses on the need to recognise the value of ‘associational’ perspectives, to highlight how fascism historically drew together a constellation o…
Heroes and Victims: Comparative Perspectives on Europe’s Multilayered Memory Cultures
On Victims, Heroes, and Gulag-gupvi Survivors: A Central European Life Story
Employing a biographical, oral history approach, this article documents the life story of a war veteran and gupvi survivor in Hungary to illustrate the multiple synchronic as well as diachronic cleavages that exist between the official, societal, and collective memory regimes in postcommunist Eastern Europe. István Bicskei’s life story highlights, in a tangible way, the fact that the socially constructed notions of victimhood and heroism vary as …
Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša-Croatian Revolutionary Organization
This article advances an interdisciplinary and multifactorial socio-cultural approach to the fascistization of the Ustaša in interwar Yugoslavia, leading to terrorism and racial cleansing. It concentrates on the life-trajectories of Mijo Babić and Zvonimir Pospišil, two nationalist activists notoriously known as the first Ustaša terrorists. Drawing on the previously unknown political memoirs of Pospišil and Babić, the article argues that the two …
Beyond the Fascist Century: Essays in Honour of Roger Griffin
Liberalism, Constitutional Nationalism, and Minorities: The Making of Romanian Citizenship, c. 1750–1918
Winner of the 2019 CEU Award for Outstanding Research This book documents the making of Romanian citizenship from 1750 to 1918 as a series of acts of national self-determination by the Romanians, as well as the emancipation of subordinated gender, social, and ethno-religious groups. It focuses on the progression of a sum of transnational "questions" that were at the heart of North-Atlantic, European, and local politics during the long nineteenth …
War Veterans, Demobilization and Political Activism: Greater Romania in Comparison
This article aims to further problematize the relationship between patterns of demobilization, fascism and veterans’ activism, on several inter-related counts. We argue that the relationship between fascism and war veterans was not a fixed nexus, but the outcome of a complex political constellation of socio-economic and political factors that necessitates a case-by-case in-depth discussion. Also, we argue that these factors were both national and…
Academic Freedom in Danger. Fact Files on the 'CEU Affair
In the beginning of April this year, the Hungarian Parliament passed two amendments to the existing educational law, which in their particular formulation targeted specifically the renowned Central European University in Budapest and sought to undermine the legal basis of its existence in Hungary. In four contributions leading academics and a PhD student of the History Department of the Central European University place the latest events in conte…
Ideological Transfers and Bureaucratic Entanglements: Nazi ‘Experts’ on the ‘Jewish Question’ and the Romanian-German Relations, 1940–1944
This article focuses on the transfer of the Nazi legal and ideological model to East Central Europe and its subsequent adoption, modification and fusion with local legal-political practices. To illustrate this process, we explore the evolution of the anti-Semitic policy of the Antonescu regime in Romania (1940–1944) from an under-researched perspective: the activity of the Nazi ‘advisors on the Jewish Question’ dispatched to Bucharest. Based on a…
Surmonter l'orientalisme: Nouvelles approches de l'histoire moderne des Balkans
The Collapse of Communist Regimes: Civil vs. Uncivil Societies
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in East Central Europe: New Research Trends and Perspectives
Comparative fascist studies: New perspectives
"Owing to its mass appeal, revolutionary and violent nature, strong political impact, and multiple reverberations in contemporary politics, fascism was one of the most complex, and hotly debated movements of the twentieth century. Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives brings together some of the leading experts in the field in order to provide an informative introduction to the most recent debates on fascist studies and the history of fas…
Debate: Fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe: Mainstream Fascism or ‘Mutant’ Phenomenon
Introduction: Fascism in Interwar East Central and Southeastern Europe: Toward a New Transnational Research Agenda
This introductory essay provides a first, much needed comprehensive overview of the recent scholarship on fascism and the radical right in East Central and Southeastern Europe in local and international historiography. Its aim is to identify a new research agenda for studying fascism comparatively, potentially contributing to the fine-tuning or substantial modification of the existing explanatory paradigms. It is argued that comparative research …
The Great Communist Bank Robbery. Dir. Alexandra Solomon. New York: Cinema Guild, 2005. 70 min. Color. $295.00, sale of DVD. $85.00, rental of DVD
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reconceptualizing the Social: East Central Europe and the New Sociocultural History
This introductory essay reviews recent debates on social history, with a focus on the revival of this field of studies in post-communist East Central Europe and its potential impact on rejuvenating approaches to the social history of Europe. The first part of the essay provides a brief overview of the emergence of social history as a reaction to the dominant political history of the nineteenth century and its crystallization in different national…
Reconceptualizing the Social: East Central Europe and the New Sociocultural History Repenser le social : l'Europe du Centre-Est et la nouvelle histoire socioculturelle Die Wiederverjüngung des Soziale…
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
Why Bother About Historical Regions: Debates Over Central Europe in Hungary, Poland and Romania
The article analyzes the ways in which the concept of Central Europe and related regional classifications were instrumentalized in historical research in Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Hungarian and Polish historians employed the discourse of Central Europe as a central means to contextualize and often relativize established national historical narratives, their geographical frameworks of comparison were nevertheless fairly divergent, the Hun…
Why Bother About Historical Regions: Debates Over Central Europe in Hungary, Poland and Romania
The article analyzes the ways in which the concept of Central Europe and related regional classifications were instrumentalized in historical research in Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Hungarian and Polish historians employed the discourse of Central Europe as a central means to contextualize and often relativize established national historical narratives, their geographical frameworks of comparison were nevertheless fairly divergent. the Hun…
In Search of a Usable Past: The Question of National Identity in Romanian Studies, 1990-2000
This article offers an overview of the scholarly debates on Romanian nation building and national ideology during the first post-communist decade. It argues that the globalization of history writing and the increasing access of local intellectual discourses to the international “market of ideas” had a powerful impact on both Eastern European history writing and on the Western scholarly literature dealing with the region. In regard to Romanian his…
Citizenship, Nation-and State-Building: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913
Situated in the northeastern extremity of the Balkan Peninsula, between the lower Danube and the Black Sea, the historical province of Dobrogea has a highly individualized geographical character. The arid steppes in the middle of the province are surrounded by an extensive seacoast in the east, the vast Danube delta in the north, the fertile shores of the Danube in the west, and by the Bulgarian mainland in the south, making up a broad ribbon of …
The Unyielding Boundaries of Citizenship: The Emancipation of 'Non-Citizens' in Romania, 1866–1918
This article attempts to contribute historical data to studies of the emergence and development of the institution of citizenship in Romania. Designed as an overview of Romanian citizenship legislation between 1866 and 1918, the article focuses on the contradiction between claims for the universality of bourgeois-democratic liberal ideology and the hierarchic and illiberal citizenship practice, which disenfranchised a considerable number of men, …
In Search of a Usable Past: The Question of National Identity in Romanian Studies, 1990-2000
This article offers an overview of the scholarly debates on Romanian nation building and national ideology during the first post-communist decade. It argues that the globalization of history writing and the increasing access of local intellectual discourses to the international “market of ideas” had a powerful impact on both Eastern European history writing and on the Western scholarly literature dealing with the region. In regard to Romanian his…
Citizenship, Nation-and State-Building: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913
Situated in the northeastern extremity of the Balkan Peninsula, between the lower Danube and the Black Sea, the historical province of Dobrogea has a highly individualized geographical character. The arid steppes in the middle of the province are surrounded by an extensive seacoast in the east, the vast Danube delta in the north, the fertile shores of the Danube in the west, and by the Bulgarian mainland in the south, making up a broad ribbon of …
Why Bother About Historical Regions: Debates Over Central Europe in Hungary, Poland and Romania
The article analyzes the ways in which the concept of Central Europe and related regional classifications were instrumentalized in historical research in Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Hungarian and Polish historians employed the discourse of Central Europe as a central means to contextualize and often relativize established national historical narratives, their geographical frameworks of comparison were nevertheless fairly divergent. the Hun…
The Unyielding Boundaries of Citizenship: The Emancipation of 'Non-Citizens' in Romania, 1866–1918
This article attempts to contribute historical data to studies of the emergence and development of the institution of citizenship in Romania. Designed as an overview of Romanian citizenship legislation between 1866 and 1918, the article focuses on the contradiction between claims for the universality of bourgeois-democratic liberal ideology and the hierarchic and illiberal citizenship practice, which disenfranchised a considerable number of men, …
War Veterans, Demobilization and Political Activism: Greater Romania in Comparison
This article aims to further problematize the relationship between patterns of demobilization, fascism and veterans’ activism, on several inter-related counts. We argue that the relationship between fascism and war veterans was not a fixed nexus, but the outcome of a complex political constellation of socio-economic and political factors that necessitates a case-by-case in-depth discussion. Also, we argue that these factors were both national and…
The Unyielding Boundaries of Citizenship: The Emancipation of 'Non-Citizens' in Romania, 1866–1918
This article attempts to contribute historical data to studies of the emergence and development of the institution of citizenship in Romania. Designed as an overview of Romanian citizenship legislation between 1866 and 1918, the article focuses on the contradiction between claims for the universality of bourgeois-democratic liberal ideology and the hierarchic and illiberal citizenship practice, which disenfranchised a considerable number of men, …
Citizenship, Nation-and State-Building: The Integration of Northern Dobrogea into Romania, 1878-1913
Situated in the northeastern extremity of the Balkan Peninsula, between the lower Danube and the Black Sea, the historical province of Dobrogea has a highly individualized geographical character. The arid steppes in the middle of the province are surrounded by an extensive seacoast in the east, the vast Danube delta in the north, the fertile shores of the Danube in the west, and by the Bulgarian mainland in the south, making up a broad ribbon of …
In Search of a Usable Past: The Question of National Identity in Romanian Studies, 1990-2000
This article offers an overview of the scholarly debates on Romanian nation building and national ideology during the first post-communist decade. It argues that the globalization of history writing and the increasing access of local intellectual discourses to the international “market of ideas” had a powerful impact on both Eastern European history writing and on the Western scholarly literature dealing with the region. In regard to Romanian his…
Why Bother About Historical Regions: Debates Over Central Europe in Hungary, Poland and Romania
The article analyzes the ways in which the concept of Central Europe and related regional classifications were instrumentalized in historical research in Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Hungarian and Polish historians employed the discourse of Central Europe as a central means to contextualize and often relativize established national historical narratives, their geographical frameworks of comparison were nevertheless fairly divergent, the Hun…
Why Bother About Historical Regions: Debates Over Central Europe in Hungary, Poland and Romania
The article analyzes the ways in which the concept of Central Europe and related regional classifications were instrumentalized in historical research in Hungary, Poland and Romania. While Hungarian and Polish historians employed the discourse of Central Europe as a central means to contextualize and often relativize established national historical narratives, their geographical frameworks of comparison were nevertheless fairly divergent. the Hun…
Reconceptualizing the Social: East Central Europe and the New Sociocultural History Repenser le social : l'Europe du Centre-Est et la nouvelle histoire socioculturelle Die Wiederverjüngung des Soziale…
Founded in 1683 in Leiden, the Netherlands, Brill is a leading international academic publisher in the Humanities, Social Sciences, International Law, and Biology. With offices in the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, the USA and Asia, Brill today publishes more than 360 journals and 2,000 new books and reference works each year as well as a large number of databases and primary source research collections
The Great Communist Bank Robbery. Dir. Alexandra Solomon. New York: Cinema Guild, 2005. 70 min. Color. $295.00, sale of DVD. $85.00, rental of DVD
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Reconceptualizing the Social: East Central Europe and the New Sociocultural History
This introductory essay reviews recent debates on social history, with a focus on the revival of this field of studies in post-communist East Central Europe and its potential impact on rejuvenating approaches to the social history of Europe. The first part of the essay provides a brief overview of the emergence of social history as a reaction to the dominant political history of the nineteenth century and its crystallization in different national…
Comparative fascist studies: New perspectives
"Owing to its mass appeal, revolutionary and violent nature, strong political impact, and multiple reverberations in contemporary politics, fascism was one of the most complex, and hotly debated movements of the twentieth century. Comparative Fascist Studies: New Perspectives brings together some of the leading experts in the field in order to provide an informative introduction to the most recent debates on fascist studies and the history of fas…
Debate: Fascism in East Central and Southeastern Europe: Mainstream Fascism or ‘Mutant’ Phenomenon
Introduction: Fascism in Interwar East Central and Southeastern Europe: Toward a New Transnational Research Agenda
This introductory essay provides a first, much needed comprehensive overview of the recent scholarship on fascism and the radical right in East Central and Southeastern Europe in local and international historiography. Its aim is to identify a new research agenda for studying fascism comparatively, potentially contributing to the fine-tuning or substantial modification of the existing explanatory paradigms. It is argued that comparative research …
Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in East Central Europe: New Research Trends and Perspectives
The Collapse of Communist Regimes: Civil vs. Uncivil Societies
Surmonter l'orientalisme: Nouvelles approches de l'histoire moderne des Balkans
Ideological Transfers and Bureaucratic Entanglements: Nazi ‘Experts’ on the ‘Jewish Question’ and the Romanian-German Relations, 1940–1944
This article focuses on the transfer of the Nazi legal and ideological model to East Central Europe and its subsequent adoption, modification and fusion with local legal-political practices. To illustrate this process, we explore the evolution of the anti-Semitic policy of the Antonescu regime in Romania (1940–1944) from an under-researched perspective: the activity of the Nazi ‘advisors on the Jewish Question’ dispatched to Bucharest. Based on a…
War Veterans, Demobilization and Political Activism: Greater Romania in Comparison
This article aims to further problematize the relationship between patterns of demobilization, fascism and veterans’ activism, on several inter-related counts. We argue that the relationship between fascism and war veterans was not a fixed nexus, but the outcome of a complex political constellation of socio-economic and political factors that necessitates a case-by-case in-depth discussion. Also, we argue that these factors were both national and…
Academic Freedom in Danger. Fact Files on the 'CEU Affair
In the beginning of April this year, the Hungarian Parliament passed two amendments to the existing educational law, which in their particular formulation targeted specifically the renowned Central European University in Budapest and sought to undermine the legal basis of its existence in Hungary. In four contributions leading academics and a PhD student of the History Department of the Central European University place the latest events in conte…
Liberalism, Constitutional Nationalism, and Minorities: The Making of Romanian Citizenship, c. 1750–1918
Winner of the 2019 CEU Award for Outstanding Research This book documents the making of Romanian citizenship from 1750 to 1918 as a series of acts of national self-determination by the Romanians, as well as the emancipation of subordinated gender, social, and ethno-religious groups. It focuses on the progression of a sum of transnational "questions" that were at the heart of North-Atlantic, European, and local politics during the long nineteenth …
Beyond the Fascist Century: Essays in Honour of Roger Griffin
Why We Have Become Revolutionaries and Murderers: Radicalization, Terrorism, and Fascism in the Ustaša-Croatian Revolutionary Organization
This article advances an interdisciplinary and multifactorial socio-cultural approach to the fascistization of the Ustaša in interwar Yugoslavia, leading to terrorism and racial cleansing. It concentrates on the life-trajectories of Mijo Babić and Zvonimir Pospišil, two nationalist activists notoriously known as the first Ustaša terrorists. Drawing on the previously unknown political memoirs of Pospišil and Babić, the article argues that the two …
Heroes and Victims: Comparative Perspectives on Europe’s Multilayered Memory Cultures
On Victims, Heroes, and Gulag-gupvi Survivors: A Central European Life Story
Employing a biographical, oral history approach, this article documents the life story of a war veteran and gupvi survivor in Hungary to illustrate the multiple synchronic as well as diachronic cleavages that exist between the official, societal, and collective memory regimes in postcommunist Eastern Europe. István Bicskei’s life story highlights, in a tangible way, the fact that the socially constructed notions of victimhood and heroism vary as …
Three Reflections on New Directions in Comparative Fascism Studies
In this article, three leading scholars of comparative fascism studies offer their thoughts and reflections on the state of the field. It seeks to stimulate debate and reflection on how to study fascism in the years to come and addresses a number of challenges facing this area of study. Aristotle Kallis focuses on the need to recognise the value of ‘associational’ perspectives, to highlight how fascism historically drew together a constellation o…
Building Citizenship in Central and Eastern Europe, 1848–1939: Peasants' National Integration and Social Mobilisation
Political science (19 works) · Law (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · History (14 works) · Politics (14 works) · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics (9 works) · Italian Fascism and Post-war Society (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Ancient history (7 works) · Archaeology (7 works)